Means of expressing anomaly in russian riddles

Moiseeva Anastasia Andreevna

Aim. This article is devoted to identifying and describing the means of expressing opposition "norm-anomaly" in Russian riddles. Methodology. The presentation of the article uses the structural-semantic method of analyzing language units. An analysis of vocabulary with the prefix of non-and proposed-case forms of nouns with a preposition without, a classification of riddles with the semantics of "underdevelopment" and "objects of denial" is presented. Functional figurative elements illustrating deviations from the norm in riddles are understood. Results. The analysis of language material showed that the means of expressing the opposition "norm-anomaly" are traced at different levels of the language: lexical, word-forming, morphological and syntactic. Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the theory of the linguistic category of evaluation.

Keywords:opposition "norm - anomaly," means of expressing the anomalous, Russian, paremilogical genres, small folklore genres, evaluation category.