Keyword: «irony»

The article deals with the way the lexical stylistic device of antonomasia is used in Harry Potter novels. Speaking names are viewed within the context of information they render and cultural associations they arouse. The author comes to the conclusion that Rowling’s ample use of antonomasia can be reinforced with other tropes that have a similar linguistic nature.

The purpose of the article is to identify the language means of a pun explication in Kozma Prutkov’s aphorisms, which can serve as signs of the satirical and ironic idiostyle of this fictional character. The types of lexical dominants of pun aphorisms, as well as super verbal means of creating a pun effect are analyzed here. Comparative and classification methods for systematization of linguistic material are used in this investigation to establish differential features of keywords and paradigmatic relations between them.