Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2017 10) 303-316 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’1 The Author’s Phonosemantic Nonce Lexis as the Language Game Instrument Olga A. Bartashova* St. Petersburg State University of Economics 30/32 Nab. kanala Griboedova, St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia Received 25.10.2016, received in revised form 22.11.2016, accepted 16.01.2017 The article outlines observation of phonetically expressive nonce words in the English literature. <...> It contains the analysis of the phonosemantic nonce words fund belonging to such writers as J. Rowling, A.A. Milne, L. Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien. <...> The unique genre and style of these works determine a high degree of linguacreativity where one can define numerous author’s nonce words formed basing on phonosemantic regularities and characterized by a huge phonostylistic potential. <...> Introduction Possessing a huge heuristic potential, phonosemantics has given rise to numerous researches investigating its different aspects. <...> Investigation of the corpora of lingua-creative author’s lexis with the help of phonosemantic analysis contributes to author’s concepts comprehensionand helps to assess its role in the creation of text stylistic effect, thus providing extended phonosemantic studies and entering the level of text analysis. © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: bartashova_o@mail.ru – 303 – The observation of phonosemantic features of literary works supports an insight in not only the specificity of heuristic power of phonosemantic system as a linguistic phenomenon, but also into the artistic style of literary works, since the texts analysis for the author’s phonosemantic content identification allows considering the phonostylistic mechanisms within the text. <...> The category of sound expressiveness is a basic parameter for the author’s phonosemantic corpus. <...> A detailed analysis of phonosemantic components of the linguacreated lexis allows bringing ties between the form and meaning to the light; provides decoding author’s concepts built into phonosemantic linguacreated lexis Olga A. Bartashova. <...> The Author’s Phonosemantic Nonce Lexis as the Language Game Instrument and understanding the reasons for forming such phonostylistic instrument in the text. <...> The study of individual phonosemantic component produced by the subject of utterance or text requires developing of the method of phonosemantic analysis in order to correctly identify the phonosemantic <...>