Open AccessPeculiarities of W. Moers’s Idiostyle in «The Alchemaster’s Apprentice» («Der Schreksenmeister»)
Author(s) -
Larissa Nyubina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
izvestiâ smolenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2072-9464
DOI - 10.35785/2072-9464-2021-54-2-149-163
Subject(s) - linguistics , german , comics , grammar , popularity , stylistics , language game , computer science , sociology , literature , art , psychology , philosophy , social psychology
W. Moers is a modern German writer whose main works are addressed to
children. Their popularity has been gained not least by means of the language game,
but often by the author’s idiostyle. The language game is clearly visible in the work
«The Alchemaster’s Apprentice» (in original: «Der Schrecksenmeister») under anal-
ysis in all linguistic fields, i.e. lexics, grammar, word-formation, stylistics, etc. The
usage of the language game as a means of creating a comic effect is an asset of the author’s idiostyle. The article considers idiostyle as W. Moers’ «individuality and uniqueness» as he uses linguistic, esthetic and stylistic, and literary means, i.e. the total array of language tools for drawing the readers’ attention to them.