A COMPARATIVE PARADIGM OF NONFICTIONAL PROSE: A POLYASPECT LINGUISTIC DIMENSION

The purpose of the research is a qualification of comparativity as a component of nonfictional literature. The diaries, authored by the poet, novelist, literary critic and scientist Petro Soroka, were used as a source base. The actual base consists of comparativemas extracted from these works using the method of continuous sampling. The object of the article is a comparison, and the subject is semantic-functional, linguistic-cultural, neurolinguistic and pragmatic analysis of comparative constructions that make up a specific system. The researched diaries contain introversion and literary parts, each of which expresses the author’s inner world, reflections on nature or thoughts on the literary process. A special subsystem is represented by the epistemological-artistic comparative paradigm. We interpret the paradigm as a model of the world, and we define the comparative paradigm as a set of logical, semantic, functional and ethnocultural models that are appropriately verbalized and make up the system. In general, the comparative paradigm of the Ukrainian language is a complex system. The qualification of the comparative paradigm provides a comprehensive consideration of the phenomenon of comparison. The article provides a linguistic qualification of comparison. The logical types and subtypes of comparative models are determined, the specifics of comparison as a fragment of equivalence are outlined, some ethnocultural codes of the writer like his idea of environment and creativity are characterized, stylistic parameters and communicative aspects as an expansive complex comparative system are outlined. Petro Soroka is interpreted as a linguistic personality that correlates with the visual type of perception of the world.