Compound Alogisms in Russian Poetry of the Silver Age: Structural, Semantic and Functional Features

The article focuses on the issue of the formation and functioning of figurative and expressive language means in works of fiction. The aim of the research is a comprehensive analysis of compound alogisms in poetic texts. The research material comprises compound words that exhibit features of alogical figures and perform the functions of such figures in poetic texts. The sources of the practical research material are poetic texts of the Silver Age. The methods used in the study include the descriptive method, the method of contextual analysis and the method of transformational analysis. The study has resulted in the description of the structural and semantic features of compound words with signs of oxymoron and catachresis. The productive and non-productive methods of forming compound-oxymorons and compound-catachreses in Russian poetry at the turn of the 20th century were analyzed. The analysis of the functional capabilities of compound alogisms showed that the expressive, depictive and evaluative functions they perform have a specific character: the studied compound words are an expressive means with a high intensity of impact on the reader, they participate in creating complex, paradoxical images, and express a contradictory assessment of the object of nomination. This specific realization of functions is determined by the structural and semantic features of compound alogisms.