LANGUAGE MEANS DESCRIBING NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION OF FANTASY CREATURES (BASED ON JOANNE ROWLING’S NOVELS)

Abstract

The article deals with the study of linguistic means of non-verbal communication of fantasy creatures based on J. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter. Literary works reflect the reality in all its manifestations, and literary characters have their own unique nature with which they live, communicate, exchange emotions, therefore the relevance of the research topic is justified by both the importance of the non-verbal component of communication in communication in general, and by the fact that the means of non-verbal communication of each individual character allow readers not only to more accurately imagine his / her appearance, but also to understand the nature of the character more deeply; at the same time, the analysis of language means of non-verbal communication of fantasy characters in J. Rowling’s novels allows penetrating deeper into the ideological fabric of her works and to understand the specifics of the writer’s fantasy literary discourse. The research material is J. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter, in which fantasy characters are presented at the same level as human characters, which allows us to study the specifics of representing their non-verbal communication as a component of the communication of all characters in the novel. The aim of the study is to determine the peculiarities of the language representation of the means of non-verbal communication of fantasy creatures in J. Rowling’s novels. In the course of the study, the concept of non-verbal communication was defined, the functions and classification of non-verbal means of communication were investigated, and the specific linguistic means of fantasy characters’ non-verbal communication in J. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter were analyzed. The conducted research demonstrates that since in the magical universe of the writer, fantasy creatures exist on an equal condition with human ones, and the target audience of these novels are children, the non-verbal communication of fantasy creatures is similar to the non-verbal communication of a person. The means of verbalizing non-verbal communication of fantasy creatures in the novels by the writer are both means of primary nomination (verbs and nouns that can be used both separately and with the addition of descriptive constructions to characterize the actual behavior of characters), and means of secondary nomination (phraseological units, metaphors, epithets and hyperboles that focus on the emotional display of the means of non-verbal communication of fantasy creatures).