Палиндромы в английском языке: материальность слова и образы животных

The idea of the palindrome is closely associated with the material and corporeal aspect of verbal signification. Animal images are used for symbolizing the palindromic processes of regression and circularity: the crab or cancer, and the snake biting its own tail. Likewise, the mirror metaphor has been applied to palindrome structures. Largely a visual phenomenon, the palindrome epitomizes the spatiality of language and scripture, something indicated already on the metaphorological plane of classical terminology: «running back again» (palindromos), «stepping back» –a temporal motion in space. Allowing for reversibility of the linear discourse, the palindrome represents the very idea of transformation and metamorphosis. Palindromic reversion is a device for breaking up the linearity of speech and, by implication, the irreversibility of time. Irreversibility «themantises itself in the palindrome form by eating itself up» (a quotation from Oskar Pastior, the outstanding contemporary German palindrome poet). Sequentiality and causality of time and space are annihilated in the palindromic motion. Thus, the palindrome can be conceived of as a chronotope of revolution. (‹chrono-topos›: time-space) [5].
This report examines the different types of palindromes, regularities of their structure, their classification.
The result is a dictionary of palindromes (see. Appendix ) which can be applied to the English lessons.
This phenomenon in language, though not new, but is very interesting and original. A combination of different styles of speech, word creation, the importance of each word, and at the same time a limited set of sounds and syllables create magic words. Determination of palindromes is a very difficult task, but if you are lucky enough to create a successful and, most importantly, not devoid of meaning small masterpiece, it is destined to live long, as an exemplary representative of this wonderful genre. Some poets-experimenters write palindromes entire poems - palindromony - this is the top of the skill. It is extremely difficult to write rhymed palindromony. Palindromes are not usually considered in terms of their truth - but only in terms of their form [8]. Their form is symmetrical, and therefore sacred. I plan to continue studying palindromic structures and their linguistic features in comparison of 2 or 3 languages.