STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF EGOISTIC UTTERANCES

Abstract

The complicated nature of the phenomenon under study requires an interdisciplinary approach. To recognize the social nature of human language is to view language through its function which is a means of communication. Literary texts express something beyond their literal ‘meaning’, and these other layers of meaning can be explored by attentive reading and analysis. Stylistic analysis is practised as a means of understanding the possible meanings in a text. All language means have two major meanings: ordinary (grammatical and lexical) and stylistic (expressive-emotive-evaluative). The article deals with the stylistic devices used in the egotistic utterances. The author examines repetition, gradation, hyperbole, epithet, literalism, rhetorical questions, echo question, metaphor, metonymy and simile. The communicant-egotist is led by the following personal qualities such as dominance, haughtiness, pride, etc. The pragmatic potential of the given devices has been defined.