SEMANTICS OF CAUSATIVE EMOTIVES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN THE HEADLINES OF MODERN INTERNET TEXTS

Abstract

Aim. This work aims to identify characteristics of the causative semantics of Russian-emotive verbs and their interpretation in the headlines of the modern Internet media that corresponds to the tasks of "Semantic and grammatical dictionary of Russian verbs. Methodology. The article analyzes verbs of the same lexical and semantic group, sets morphological priorities within the inflectional paradigm of these verbs, and identifies syntactic conditions that strengthen or weaken a seme of intentional/unintentional causation. Methods of observation, corpus analysis, and discursive analysis were used in the verbs' research. Results. Corpus and text analysis of constructions with causative emotives allowed us to present the semantic and grammatical properties of causative-emotive verbs and show their role in different types of headings. Research implications. The research results are intended for lexicographic representation of causative emotives in an integral dictionary that combines morphological, syntactic, functional, and communicative information with characteristics of the lexical semantics of verbs of the same group.

Keywords

• linguistic analysis
• communicative grammar
• subjective perspective
• causativeness
• emotional verbs
• interpretation