Techniques of Language Play in the Works of E.N. Uspenskiy
The paper presents the theory of the language game based on the works of famous Russian scientists of the last thirty years (B.Y. Norman, V.Z. Sannikov, T.A. Gridina); various techniques of the language game (word-formation and semantic) are considered, used by one of the most famous Russian (Soviet) writers in the texts of works of art addressed to children, which are designed for comic effect in their perception. An attempt is made to trace the author’s motivation when using such neoplasms; it is assumed that the inclusion in the text of the work of the author’s “igrem” stimulates the child reader to the process of word-making. Among other techniques of the language game it is said about its “special” form - pun, which is of undoubted interest in terms of perception of its components by the children’s linguistic consciousness.