THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE DESCRIPTION OF HYPERBOLE IN THE RUSSIAN AND TAJIK LANGUAGES
The article is devoted to the study of hyperbole as a means of verbal expressiveness of the Russian and Tajik languages. It was revealed that, in contrast to the trend of growing interest in this phenomenon in the scientific community in Russian linguistics, there is no interest in studying it in Tajik linguistics, and today there are no special studies on the linguistic nature of hyperbole. Based on the point of view that has developed in modern Russian linguistics on hyperbole as a linguistic phenomenon, the author sets himself the task of summarizing the opinions prevailing in Tajik philology to give a definition of this figurative means of the lexical level. It is noted that in matters of determining the essence of hyperbole there was a consensus among Russian and Tajik scientists. However, there are some disagreements regarding the scope of the concept under study, which consist in expanding its scope to two semantic options: feature maximization and minimization. It is determined that in Russian linguistics, in contrast to Tajik, much attention is paid to the functional potential of hyperbolic units, linguistic means of their representation, as well as the problems of identifying criteria for the typology of hyperbole. The author states the fact of highlighting semantic varieties of hyperbole in the Tajik language and the existence of a separate means of expression endowed with properties opposite to hyperbole, known as "tasvir".