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Structural-semantic and functional-stylistic characteristics of Vasily Aksenov’s new coined words in epic novel «Moscow Saga»

2020; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO CARLOS; Volume: 6; Issue: Extra-B Linguagem: Inglês

10.24115/s2446-622020206extra-b604p.137-142

2446-6220

Alexandr Vladimirovich Spiridonov, Hossein Sheykhi,

Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

This scientific article examines occasional neologisms extracted from the texts of the epic novel by Vasily Aksyonov "The Moscow Saga", which consists of three novels: "Winter Generation", "War and Prison", "Prison and Peace", created in 1991-1992. The study is performed in two parts. The first part identifies the main methods used by the writer to create occasionalisms. The main functions are established in the second part, that are performed by individual author's neologisms. In the course of the analysis, it is concluded that the writer in the process of occasionalism development resorts to different methods, both conventional and non-conventional. The former include prefixation, suffixation, different types of addition, the latter include gendiadis and contamination. Conventional methods, namely, suffixation is the most productive among them. From the point of view of the functional characteristics of the studied units, it is noted that occasionalisms perform nominative, playful, emotionally expressive, euphemistic and ideological functions. The predominant character of the second and third function is pointed out, which generally correlates with the tendencies of the author's word-creation.