Oleksyshyna L. Lexico-semantic and Stylistic Peculiarities of the Zoonymic Comparisons of the German Language.

The dissertation is a comprehensive study of structurally-grammatical, lexico-semantic and linguostylistic peculiarities of the German artistic comparisons with zoonymic components. The thesis considers connotative and communicative potentialities of the author's zoonymic artistic comparisons and zoonymic comparative phraseological units. In the framework of psycholinguistic experiment it indicates the semes' brightness index of the isolated from the context zoonyms and brings to light informants' subjective zoomorphic conceptions. It investigates the types of the variants of zoonymic comparative phraseological units and the author's modifications of zoonymic artistic comparisons. The thesis determines phrase-creative activity and the degrees of phraseoproductivity of zoonyms in the structure of zoonymic artistic comparisons.