TYPES OF EVALUATION IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN BELLES- LETTRES TEXTS OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES
The paper addresses the description of evaluative utterances in British and American belles-lettres texts of the XIX-XX centuries from the point of view of the type of evaluation they express. In the article the definition of an evaluative utterance is formulated, the main principles of differentiation between evaluative utterances of emotional and rational types are outlined. The peculiarities of embodiment of emotional and rational evaluation in belles-lettres texts of the XIX-XX centuries are revealed, lexical and syntactic means of their expression are described.