LANGUAGE GAME PHENOMENON IN ROALD DAHL’S CREATIVE WORK (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE TALE "THE BFG")
Denisova Natal'ya Viktorovna, Kovanova Evgeniya Anatol'evna
Saint Petersburg University
Submitted: 11.02.2019
Abstract. The article is devoted to studying the realization of the language game phenomenon in R. Dahl’s tale "The BFG". The study aims to correlate language game techniques with the dominants of children’s linguistic consciousness and to identify its functions in children’s tales. The authors for the first time examine the functional potential of language game in children’s literature. The findings indicate that in the analysed tale, language game is an instrument, which helps to establish contact with a reader-child and to capture his interest by means of ludic, phatic, meta-communicative, linguo-cognitive and other functions.
Key words and phrases: языковая игра, детское языковое сознание, Роальд Даль, "The BFG", детская литературная сказка, лингвокреативность, словотворчество, окказионализмы, language game, children’s linguistic consciousness, Roald Dahl, "The BFG", children’s literary tale, linguo-creativity, word creation, occasionalisms
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