Административный восторг: крылатое слово Достоевского как средство оценки в тексте СМИ
Administrative delight: Dostoevsky’s figure of speech as means of expressing the evaluation in mass media

Summary/Abstract: The given paper is dedicated to the analysis of the word combination “administrative delight,” which was firstly used by F. Dostoevsky in his novel Demons to describe the bureaucratic arbitrariness, and later on became a figure of speech. By considering the examples of the usage of the mentioned stylistic device in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish mass media, the context extension and the change of semantics were pointed out by the author of the paper. The undertaken research leads to the conclusion about the universality and the convincing factor of the viability of the figure of speech created by F. Dostoevsky.

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