Playing a huge role in the life of every person, emotions have penetrated all tiers of language. Even sounds can express feelings: for example, [a], [m] often denote joy, pleasure, [o], [y], [e] - surprise, [f], [x], [c] - disgust or contempt. The vocabulary began not only to name emotions (anxiety, suffering, happiness, etc.), but also developed so-called connotative, secondary, meanings, among which emotional ones are not the last place (for example, the words reed, skin, fox, when they call people). These phenomena are quite well known, which cannot be said about the morphemic and morphological level, although morphemic and morphological emotionality are no less interesting and important for native speakers.
At the morphemic level of the language, emotionality is expressed using so-called "expressive" morphemes that combine emotional and evaluative meanings. Everyone knows, for example, the role of diminutives and magnifiers, affectionate and pejorative suffixes. Even within a single language, each such morphemic phenomenon hides a wide range of different functions. The expressiveness of morphemes according to the method of implementation belongs to the connotative sphere and "reflects the breakthrough of emotional, subjective, and personally interested attitudes into semantics, which is the expressive effect of this meaning" (Telia V. N. Connotative aspect of the semantics of nominative units, Moscow, 1986, pp. 7-8).
N. A. Lukyanova suggests distinguishing between meliorative and peiorative assessment in expressive vocabulary. Meliorative assessment includes approval, endearment, pleasure, delight, admiration; peiorative-disapproval, condemnation, neglect, contempt, disgust, disgust, discontent, indignation, ridicule and sarcasm (Lukyanova N. A. Expressive vocabulary of colloquial use. Novosibirsk, 1986). In our opinion, the expressive meanings of morphemes can also be divided according to such factors as" acceptance - repulsion","pleasure - displeasure". At the ...
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