Functions of linguistic aphorisms (on the materials of Oles Honchar’s notes and publicistics)

Abstract

The article describes the function of linguistic aphorisms, sentential forms of Oles Honchar, written in the author’s student notes and publicistics; the attention was paid to the aim of utterance, pragmatic intentions of the writer-classic of Ukrainian literature. The authors used a descriptive method to characterize the factual material, functional-semantic and ethno-linguistic analysis was carried out with the method of identifying ethno-cultural information, pragmatic – based on the installation of the author’s communicative strategies, elements of the discursive analysis – for mastering the content. It was proved that Oles Honchar’s aphorisms about language are the key to the understanding of the author’s essence of the language and a word, their function in the life of the Ukrainian community, in the life of an independent state; it is a struggle for the power and viability of the Ukrainian language as a means of communication. The writer’s aphorisms, his maxims perform a representative function, because they demonstrate, first of all, the author’s attitude to the language, an evaluative function, because they provide an assessment of the literary creativity of many Ukrainian writers. In the master of words sayings, the reader’s attention is concentrated on the main specific features of the Ukrainian language, attention is drawn to the most pressing problems of today. Therefore, these utterances perform culminating, accumulative and actualizing functions. Oles Honchar’s aphorisms implement the aesthetic function, which allows you to transfer the subjective attitude to what is being reported. Among aphorisms there are many such ones, which have characterological and nominative functions. Metalanguage (metalinguistic) function of aphorisms is also used, if there are some words in them which serve for explanation of others, when after the author’s comments, dialogic statements are established that express personal, interindividual and interactional character.