LANGUAGE MEANS OF EXPRESSING NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TO A PERSON IN A TEXT AND THEIR ANALYSIS DURING LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE
The article deals with linguistic means of expressing negative attitude to a person. The authors pay special attention to lexical means that can express an assessment explicitly and implicitly. Supporting their own reasoning with the materials of the literary text (the novel by M. Bulgakov “The Heart of a Dog”) and the results of various linguistic examinations, the authors conclude that an explicit negative attitude towards a person is expressed through the use of vocabulary with a strongly pronounced emotional coloring, implicitly - through the connotative components of the lexical units. The authors emphasize that negative or positive attitude can be laid on the mental level of language consciousness. When carrying out linguistic expertise it is necessary to take into account the full range of linguistic and non-linguistic means.