Kovalyova G. Pragmalinguistics of Humorous Discourse of the Ukrainian Chimeric Prose (based on E. Hutsalo and O. Ilchenko's literary works).

The object is the linguo-communicative organization of humorous discourse of E. Hutsalo and O. Ilchenko's chimeric prose; the aim is to detect and describe the pragmatic peculiarities of multi-level linguo-communicative means in humorous discourse of E. Hutsalo and O. Ilchenko's Ukrainian chimeric prose; the methods that are used: descriptive, functional, distributive, interpretative methods; contextological analysis; the novelty - for the first time in Ukrainian linguistics the linguo-pragmatical peculiarities of humorous discourse of chimeric prose are under analysis; the role of actualizing pragmatic units in communicative organization of E. Hutsalo and O. Ilchenko's chimeric prose is clarified, the specificity of expression the reaction for interlocutor's reply in chimeric text is defined; the specificity of paradoxal phrase-answer units decoding in both authors' texts is identified, the classification of similes as pragmatic components in communicative space of E. Hutsalo and O. Ilchenko's texts is made; the results - the theoretical aspects of the Study of Pragmalinguistics of humorous discourse are defined; the peculiarities of main pragmatic factors in humorous discourse are characterized; the peculiarities of chimeric prose as for linguo-communicative means of humorous situations reproducing are clarified; the specificity of pragmatic units functioning in communicative space of chimeric novels "The lent husband. The private life of phenomenon" by E. Hutsalo and "The Cossacks never end, or Mamai and Somebody else's Young Woman" by O. Ilchenko are under description; the place of phrase-answer units in general paradigm of humorous discourse is defined; the typology of similes as for their pragmatic significance is set; the pragmatic function of comparative constructions in text representation of Ukrainian people's world-view conceptions is revealed in both authors' texts; field - pragmalinguistics, stylistics, linguoculturology, lexicology, phraseology.