Word-Formation Means of Expressiveness of the Word: Structural-Semantic and Psycholinguistic Analysis
This article is devoted to the research of the expressive potential of word-formation means of the modern Russian language. The research was carried out in line with the anthropocentric approach to the study of linguistic phenomena that is relevant in modern science, since expressiveness is a subjectively oriented category that relies primarily on the data of linguistic consciousness. A complex structural-semantic analysis, consisting of three stages, was used to identify a set of factors that determine the expressiveness of a derived word. In the course of the analysis, a classification of linguistic material was compiled taking into account the semantics of word-formation types. Also, a psycholinguistic analysis of the word-formative means of the expressiveness of the usual word was carried out, followed by the selection of thematic groups of reactions. As a result, the hypothesis about the possibility of expressing emotional-expressive-evaluative connotations due to the word-building structure of the word, namely the expressive meaning of the word-building formant, was experimentally confirmed.