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THE USAGE OF STYLISTIC DEVICES: METAPHOR, METONYMY, HYPERBOLE IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH HUMOROUS TEXTS
Authors: U. R. Yuldoshev
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It is known that stylistics is a branch of linguistics and it is very important aspect in
creating humour. Stylistic devices of expressiveness should be investigated wider and de-
tailed, because they created much humorous effect and used in humorous texts more. The use
of the following stylistic devices is confirmed during the investigation: epithet, irony, meta-
phor, metonymy, personification, jargonizes, zeugma, litotes, oxymoron, amphibole, antithe-
sis, pun, hyperbole, sarcasm, periphrases. The following stylistic devices are used more than
others in humorous texts: metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, pun, irony, personification and
oxymoron. These devices are prevalent and more interesting in humour, pragmatic aspect and
translation of humorous texts. Humorous texts are created on the basis of these stylistic devic-
es of expressiveness. According to extend of research paper we tried to analyze active stylistic
devices metaphor, metonymy and hyperbole used in Uzbek and English language humorous
texts. We know that emotional-subjective evaluating; determining linguo-stylistic elements
are one of the main problems of literary speech stylistics. This problem is very important in
analyzing humorous texts, because emotional effect is considered very important aspect in
this genre. Stylistic devices are used more in not only Uzbek and English nations’ but also all
nations’ humorous texts and it is very important in creating humour. Usually the function of
ridiculous is considered differential feature among stylistic devices