OXYMORON – A SYNTACTIC-STYLISTIC MEANS THAT ENHANCE THE EMOTIONAL-EXPRESSIVENESS OF ARTISTIC SPEECH
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Abdumalik Inomjonovich Saminov
Associate Professor of the Department of Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy in Philology (PhD), Fergana State University
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- Oxymoron, expressiveness, stylistic figure, syntactic structure, literary text, semantic contradiction, poetic discourse.
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This article analyzes the structural-semantic and functional-stylistic characteristics of oxymorons in Uzbek artistic discourse. An oxymoron is regarded as a stylistic figure that emerges through the combination of semantically contradictory units within a single syntactic structure. The study examines the mechanisms of oxymoron formation, their syntactic patterns, and their role in enhancing emotional and expressive effects in literary texts. Furthermore, the realization of oxymorons at different linguistic levels, including sentence constituents, word combinations, simple sentences, and complex sentences, is analyzed through illustrative examples. The findings indicate that oxymorons constitute one of the important syntactic-stylistic devices that reveal the expressive potential of the Uzbek language.
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- 2026-05-31
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