Keyword: «lexical dominant»

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.