Lexic Means of Creating Irony in E. G. Vodolazkin’s Roman "Brisbene"
The article examines the features of the creation of irony in the novel «Brisbane» by the famous contemporary writer E.G. Vodolazkin. The examples of the use of irony in the text from the point of view of their semantic functioning are analyzed in detail. The author comes to the conclusion that the basis for creating irony in the novel is formed by lexical and semantic techniques that reveal the meanings of the words used. These include a violation of the stylistic compatibility of words, the actualization of unusual meanings of words and a language game based on the use of marginal vocabulary, clericalism, homonymy, occasional etymology, metaphor and metonymy. This allows us to recognize such methods of forming irony in the text as a feature of the writer’s idiostyle.