Phonetic expressive means in language and text: current approaches and research perspectives

The article examines current approaches to phonetic expressive means in language and text put forward by Russian and foreign scholars. The issues of heterogeneity of phonetically expressive words within the group of sound symbolic lexis of language are regarded. The characteristics of interpretation of cases of actualization of the phonetic language level units in the literary text in various scientific trends are revealed; the problem of terms variety is considered. The author of the article points out that certain methods of analysis of the phonostylistic component of the literary text are not quite informative and suggests possible approaches to further investigation of this kind of data in the text.