FUNCTIONING OF PERIPHRASIS IN THE EPISTLES OF THE XVI CENTURY
The article deals with periphrasis, a complex and diverse phenomenon of speech. Despite the fact that the periphrasis has been known since the ancient rhetoric, there is no common point of view on this phenomenon. The periphrasis was assumed to be used only for decoration of speech, but analysis of the texts of the XVI century has shown that the functions of paraphrases in the given period were much more various. The article analyzes the basic functions of the paraphrasis in the epistles of the XVI century.