LEXICAL CONNOTATION IN THE SPEECH CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF THE STUDENT

Abstract

The article examines the concept of connotation as a multifaceted phenomenon that has an additional shade, a component of meaning, a semantic modification, a process, a sign, a sign system, and a thought-language mechanism. The issue of lexical connotation in the linguistic culture of students, their knowledge of the status of connotation, its types, the limits of functioning and the ability to apply connotations in creative written works is revealed. The purpose of the work is to study the phenomenon of connotations in the written creative activity of high school students, the analysis of individual samples, comparison and use some permanent expressions in the Ukrainian language. To achieve the goal, the following tasks were solved: generalization of the theoretical aspects of the functioning of the concept of connotation; the essence of lexical connotation and its types in creative written works of students is revealed. In the analyzed works, we found the following types of connotations: coloratives, zoonyms, phytonyms. These types of connotations have great potential for linguistic and cultural comparisons. The analysis of the types of lexical connotation in its double meaning in the written creative activity of high school students showed that they are directly related to national culture, as it is formed in a certain national-linguistic environment, where the main factor affecting the semantic halo of a word is pragmatics those who communicate. Connotations perform cumulative, semantic or stylistic, emotional and evaluative functions of language. Connotations of coloratives contain information about the most persistent (subconscious) visual tastes of color perception, which are reproduced in the individual language of the speaker of this language, forming the mentality of the individual. Zoonyms and phytonyms are used to distinguish positive or negative qualities of a person, they are found as lexemes, word-symbols and phraseological units. The perspective of our further research is to reveal in more detail the emotional and evaluative attitude of the individual to the surrounding world, other people, to himself, which is manifested in the use of various types of connotation in the creative activities of students and is an important aspect of learning about national linguistic features.