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Lexicographic register of the fiction and author's palette of means of verbal expression of characteristic features, signs, properties of external portraiture of a person, recorded by the method of continuous sampling from V. Shklyar’s historical novel «Kharakternyk», was carried out in the article. Moreover, the semantic and stylistic approach to the study of existing figurative idioms was implemented, the lexical and grammatical typology as well as artistic and aesthetic representation of the analyzed forms were clarified, which reproduce the anthropocentric vector of the author’s artistic thinking through the point of his national and linguistic worldview. The thematic group «Human appearance» primarily consists of key lexical nominations of portrait characteristics, such as: eyebrow (eyebrows), upper eyebrow; moustache (moustache); lip (lips), mouth; hair, topknot, chub; palm; nose; leg (legs); eyes. All of them have an unequally productive combination with signifying lexemes, are characterized by moderate or distinctly bright connotative qualities of their semantics and play a peculiar artistic and descriptive, ornamental, evaluative and aesthetic or emotional and expressive role in the text of this novel. A significant number of epithets belong to the artistic and aesthetic ornamentation and figurative attributes of the concepts moustache, eyes, and are united around a striking similarity, figural juxtaposition according to lexical and thematic relations – shape, size, color, tactile feelings, emotional sphere, etc. This can be seen in detail in the presentation of the material of our lexicographic attempt to describe epithet compounds. The list of artistically disparate epithets attests to the use of a common language set of permanent, traditional lexical signs, their identification of the usual figurative characteristics of a person’s appearance, and thus – a reflection of the features of the psychotype and behavior of the depicted characters – as well as the construction of updated, expanded qualitative originality of the author’s aesthetics of world perception and communicative practice, from the more familiar ones to individually actualized, precise, apt and distinctly unexpected epithets in terms of structure and artistic and aesthetic endowment.
Kolоmiiets et al. (Wed,) studied this question.