STYLISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING HUMOUR IN STEPHEN HAWKING’S AND LEONARD MLODINOW’S PUBLICISTIC PROSE
The article is devoted to the main stylistic means of expressing humour in Stephen Hawking’s and Leonard Mlodinow ’s popular scientific books. I consider the use of colloquial lexis against the background of terminological and general scientific words, examples of allusions, oxymoron, gradation, rhetorical exclamations and other tropes and figures of speech.