FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE UNITS WITH COMPARATIVE SEMANTICS IN THE STORIES OF A. I. KUPRIN
The article analyzes functions of linguistic units of comparative semantics in the stories of A. I. Kuprin "Listrigony", "Headquarters-Captain Rybnikov", "Telegraphist", "How I was an actor", and "Emerald". The analyzed linguistic means are an integral feature of the author's idiostyle. The author of the article gives classifications of functions of linguistic means of comparative semantics as they are presented the linguistic research literature. It was revealed that in the analyzed stories the considered linguistic units perform such functions as one creating an image of an object, a character, a situation, emotive function, descriptive, evaluative, and amplifying functions.