Keyword: «punctuation»

Identification of expressive devices to render emotions in the Short stories of American writer O.Henry (XIX century) allows to clear up the list of graphical stylistic devices applied to depict the speech peculiarities of literary characters

the article deals with the problem of flexibility rules of punctuation signs’ usage in the modern English language, mostly in the texts of publicistic electronic media. Along with more freedom in using punctuation signs in everyday life communication forms (electronic letters, blogs, sms-texts, etc.), there is a tendency of resorting to punctuation in order to enhance the expressiveness of a media text. As a linguistic means of enforcing the expressivity, punctuation is a unit of the paradigm of playing resources of the language, forming the category of syngraphemics. The article contains the analysis of syngraphemic forms of the English language as emotional expressive resources of the publicistic discourse, examplified with the texts of the British on-line newspaper «The Guardian».

This article briefly describes the study of the functions of the dash in the complex sentence of the Union in the 9th grade of secondary school. The topic is complex, since the choice of punctuation marks in a non-Union complex sentence depends on the semantic relations between the parts.

This article discusses the features of the functioning of emotive punctuation marks in a work of art. The choice of the topic of the article is explained by the fact that the formation of modern linguistics as a science of anthropological orientation has increased interest in the "linguistic personality": his speech behavior, which includes feelings, emotions, assessments, that is, everything that expresses a person's attitude to reality. Emotive functions of dots, question marks and exclamation marks are revealed.

This article discusses the role of expressive punctuation in a literary text. The relevance of the choice of the topic of the article is explained by the fact that in literary texts much depends on the ability of the author to convey the finest shades of the meaning of the text by punctuation, to Express his attitude to everything described in the text.