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Сленгизмы как средство выражения оценки в газетной публицистике
Slang words as a means of expressing evaluation in newspaper texts

Author(s): Silvia Petkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Communication studies, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Descriptive linguistics, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Russian slang; mass-media discourse; semantics; pragmatics; evaluation; speaker's intentions

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the role of the common slang nouns as devices for realization of evaluation strategies in contemporary Russian mass-media discourse. A distinction is made between slang nouns which express general evaluation and those which express specific evaluation based on a particular quality of the object. A contextual analysis of a group of slang words that give negative evaluation to people, events and actions according to the criteria referring to the norms of ethics is carried out.

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