Units with logically incompatible components as a kind of figures of the absurd (based on the texts of Russian poetry of the early 20th century)

the article is devoted to the analysis of units with logically incompatible components as a kind of figures of the absurd. The article describes the distinctive features of units with logically incompatible components, which include the verbalization of incompatible concepts and the aggravation of categorical and semantic contradictions in the semantic structure. Based on the texts of Russian poetry of the early twentieth century, various approaches to defining the essential features of such units with logically incompatible components as oxymoron, catachresis, litota and hyperbole were considered. Catachresis and oxymoron are considered as stylistic devices built on the principle of alogism, the peculiarity of which is the aggravation of semantic contradictions as a result of combining ontologically incompatible words or words verbalizing antonymic concepts. Hyperbole and litota refer to stylistic techniques based on the principle of improbability, the distinguishing feature of which is the aggravation of semantic contradictions of semantic elements characterizing the quantitative characteristics of the objects of the nomination. The article considered in detail the figures of alogism and figures of improbability, which cannot be attributed to units with logically incompatible components, and there is no semantic contradiction in their semantic structure initially or it is lost due to phraseologization of stylistic techniques. The conclusion of the article says that ELNAS are figures of interpreted absurdity, since in the process of their semantic formation semantic contradictions are leveled after rethinking the meanings of certain words.

units with logically incompatible components, catachresis, oxymoron, hyperbole, litote, figure of the absurd, semantic contradiction, alogism, improbability