Grammatical binomials usage as an author's individual style

Abstract

This article is devoted to investigate the impact of specific linguistic units usage such as grammatical binomials on individual author’s style. The individual author’s style is observed as a writer’s unique signature, manifested in the selective and distinctive combination of linguistic meanings used to achieve poetic goals. The study emphasizes that author’s style is formed during the process of text creation as non-standard models and a striving for the individualization of expression. Particular attention is paid to the category of subjective modality, which permeates the entire textual space and is the main component of the author’s world picture. Modality, in combination with linguistic meanings, becomes a way of expressing the author’s intellectual and emotional reproduction of the worldview. An analysis of subjective modality allows us to identify the author’s favorite techniques and the methods of the formation of modal meanings. The central object of analysis is that the grammatical binomials are consisting of two words of the same part of speech in the same morphological form. The article proposes a stylistic typology of binomials, which includes linguistic, discursive, idiostylistic and contextual-authorial types. Using the works of Hanna Cherin and Boris Oleksandriv, the article demonstrates how these units create a specific rhythm, emotional tension and complex artistic descriptions. Attention also focused on the semantic interaction of the components of the binomial, which create new meanings. The methodological approach is based on a combination of linguistic-stylistic analysis and elements of corpus analysis. It is concluded that grammatical binomials are an effective tool for emphasizing meanings and intensifying the expressive impact on the reader.