Specificity of Lexicographic Work on German Negative Evaluative Lexical Units
The paper aims to identify the linguistic status of German pejorative lexemes used to describe a person on the basis of lexicographic references. The article examines German lexical units which demonstrate a high level of expressiveness and include the whole range of negative evaluative, pejorative, depreciative meanings. The scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that it develops the principles of choice of nominations with pejorative meaning from the general lexical fund of the language and identifies the peculiarities of their labeling in German and German-Russian lexicographic sources. As a result of the quantitative, stylistic and etymological analysis, 1492 nominations with pejorative semantics have been revealed, the characteristic features of pejoratives have been identified, the pejorative labels and their variants in different dictionaries and references have been characterized.