Pidkaminna L. Epithet of T.Shevchenko: genesis, structure and modern language reception.

This thesis is dedicated to epithets in the poetry of Т. Shevchenko, their semantic and grammatical structures, their functionally-stylistic values, genesis and modern language reception. General language and individually-authorial definitions are determined by memory factor analyses of epithets, the interplay of epithet with other tropes (metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, comparison) is also investigated. A new research direction, that is linguistic synergetic, was used for the first time to study the language of Taras Shevchenko, allowing us to analyze epithet phrases in terms of dynamics of formation and development of the system of T. Shevchenko poetic texts, taking into account the interplay of external and internal system formative factors. possibility of her application are well-proven by both practical psychologists and youths.