Речевой комизм одностиший Владимира Вишневского

Linguistic comedy is a special case of the implementation of a language game. The aim of the paper is to identify the most frequent, periodic realized linguistic ways of creating a comic effect in V. Vishnevskii’s one-line poems. The study is based on such methods as: the descriptive method, the dictionary definition analysis method and the component analysis method. The results of the research reveal that among the ways of creating the discussed effect used in V. Vishnevskii’s one-line-poems, the following are distinguished: polysemy, antonymy, metonymy, violation of lexical connectivity of words, the author’s neologisms, ellipse, transformation of precedent texts, verbal-graphic representation, and combination of lexical units referring to various aspects of their use, characterized by different functional and expressive connotations.