Leskiv A. Lingual and stylistic peculiarities of comic depiction of reality (on the material of American novels of black humor).

The thesis deals with the comprehensive study of linguistic mechanism of comic effect creating in the novels of the writers who belong to the American literary school of black humor. The thesis aims at differentiating lingual and stylistic means of comic depiction in experimental and traditional prose. The most commonly used objects of black humorists' laughter are negative psychological and physiological states of human beings. Therefore, of the highest frequency are the lexemes of negative connotation. In the dissertation the lexicon is studied within lexico-semantic fields and frames. This facilitates the process of researching their stylistic functioning, pragmatics and discourse in the analyzed novels.