Linguistic means of creating the comic in the epistolary discourse of A.S. Pushkin

The article presents an analysis of phraseological units and occasionalisms involved in the representation of the comic in the epistolary discourse of A.S. Pushkin, describes the mechanisms of their use by the author when creating a language game in letters of a friendly and literary-critical orientation. The results of the study allow us to assess the current state of this issue in Russian science, to outline the prospects for its further consideration.