IMPLEMENTATION OF SYNONYMIC POSSIBILITIES OF SOUNDING VERBS (BASED ON M. BULGAKOV’S STORY «FATAL EGGS» AND «HEART OF A DOG»)

Abstract

This article makes an attempt to find and classify the predicates with which M. Bulgakov endows his characters, which is one of the methods of semiotic analysis of a literary text. It is believed that analysis of the synonymous potential of the language of M. Bulgakov’s stories, at least using the example of sound verbs, can help in interpreting the text as a whole. The stories we are considering, “Heart of a Dog” and “The Fatal Eggs,” are satirical, extremely action-packed. Therefore, they are of interest for the semiotic study of text, since the text, according to semiotics, is studied as language in action. The work analyzes 53 verbs. The empirical basis of the factual material used in the work was a selection of verbs with a lexical-semantic sound variant from the main lexicographic sources. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the approach to solving the problem and is due to the lack of special works on synonymy (except for the work of Y. S. Stepanov), in particular, verbal synonymy, from the standpoint of semiotics.