Tropes as Modes of the Subject's Existential Creativity

The object of the presented research is tropes as lexical means of artistic expressiveness, which appear as modes of the subject's existential creativity. The subject of the research is the philosophical foundations of these language means. The research objective is to identify, substantiate and reveal the philosophical basis of language means of artistic expressiveness from an ontological, epistemological, anthropological, ethical and aesthetic perspective. This research is not limited to a linguistic analysis of speech patterns, but rather seeks to detection and structurally represent the philosophical meaning of traditional language means that reflect the implicit correlations between being and cognition and serve as ways of self-creation and life-making for the subject. The research explores how various language means reveal ideas about the hierarchical organization of being, determine the ways in which reality is perceived, illustrate the relationship between human and the world, represent moral principles, serve as means of artistic representation of reality and, in general, reflect the creative essence of language and the language forms of the subject's existential creativity. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the attempt to identify the ultimate foundations of linguistic means of artistic expression, which are revealed not only as techniques for aestheticizing the text and enriching the language semantically, but also as ways of representing and structuring reality in the context of the subject's existential creativity. The main result of the research is the development of specific philosophical foundations for the most important tropes, such as metaphor (ontological, epistemological, anthropological and aesthetic), personification (ontological and epistemological), allegory (ontological, epistemological and ethical), periphrasis (ontological), irony (epistemological), hyperbole and litotes (ontological and epistemological), oxymoron (ontological), synecdoche (ontological) and euphemism (ethical). These foundations reveal the specifics of the existential, cognitive, individual-personal, moral and artistic relations between human and the world.