Original Research Article: full paper (2017), «EUREKA: Social and Humanities» Number 2 49 Language and Linguistics IMPLEMENTATION OF AFFIRMATION CATEGORY IN A COLLOQUIAL STYLE Olena Hurko Section of Philological Studies Dnipro National University Oles Honchar 72 Gagarin ave., Dnipro, Ukraine, 49010 Hurko.o.v@gmail.com Abstract The article deals with the expression of affrmation category in a colloquial style. Analyzed the intention of the affrmation on lexical, grammatical and syntactic language levels. Structured each means of realization of affrmative meaning into a proper niche. The research confrmed that nouns, verbs, adverbs belong to the nuclear identifcations of the affrmation category. Sub-nuclear identif- cations of the affrmation category include word-sentences represented as particles, modal verbs, exclamations and estimation lexemes. As for intermediate means of affrmation representation one may attribute the expression likes ‘I know’ or syntactically segmented structures. Peripheral verbalizers of affrmative meaning cover comparisons and phraseological structures. The outmost peripheral niche is formed by elliptical incentive structures, repetitions and combinations of several particles and adverbs. Established, that an affrmation within colloquial style is connected with stating the fact, agreement with the previous fact, approval of the decision, conf- dence as to the previous message, approval of information truthfulness. Keywords: category, affrmation, colloquial style, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, feature, implementation. DOI: 10.21303/2504-5695.2017.00293 © Olena Hurko 1. Introduction Modern linguistics is described by the tendency to consider functional-semantic features categories. Among them a special place belongs to the category of affrmation. Affrmation is one of the categories of thought and one of the objects of logic as the realm of philosophical knowledge. In recent years, the research dealing with lexical, grammatical and syntactical features of category affrmation in different languages appeared. In particular, this issue in foreign and domestic linguis- tics was investigated by P. Dudyk [1], O. Kusch [2], E. Stupak [3], A. Kalinina [4], I. Dronova [5], S. Shabat-Savka [6] etc. In our opinion, affrmation is widely represented in functional language styles, because they play an important role in the communication, knowledge of the world, the refection of belief and expression of the inner state of the speaker. 2. Aims and tasks of this research A separate scientifc research dedicated to description of the affrmation meaning within col- loquial style has not yet been introduced which determines the topicality of this scientifc investi- gation. That is why affrmative sentences in colloquial speech represent the object of this research (based on the examples from fction literature). The aim of this article is to defne chief means of expressing affrmation in colloquial style. The set aim predetermines completion of the following tasks: – to analyze the intention of the affrmation on lexical, grammatical and syntactic lan- guage levels; – to structure each means of realization of affrmative meaning into a proper niche. The material used for the analysis is represented by the compositions of such Ukrainian writ- ers of the ХІХ, ХХ to ХХІ century as М. Kropyvnytsʹkyy [7], О. Honchar [8], М. Chvyl’ovyy [8], P. Myrnyy [9], V. Malykov [10], H. Еpik [10], H. Tutunyk [10], І. Karpenko-Karyy [11], І. Nechuy- Levytsʹkyy [12], М. Stelʹmakh [13], І. Franko [14], P. Zahrebelʹnyy [15], U. Samchuk [16], М. St- arytsʹkyy [17], М. Kotsyubynsʹkyy [18], І. Shapoval [19], A. Dimarov [19], N. Nezhdana [19], О. Pohrebins’ka [19], S. Shuchenko[19], A. Vyshnevs’kyy [20], I. Bondar-Tereschenko [20], O. Mykolaychuk-Nyzovets [20], S. Zhadan [20], І. Kаrpa [20].