NEGATIVE EVALUATION IN THE DISCOURSE OF ENGLISH SPORT REPORTING: LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSION

Abstract

The research is focused on the study of expression means of negative (pejorative) evaluation in sports discourse. Based on the textual and audio-video resources related to sports reporting, the authors study lexical and stylistic levels of assessment, their linguistic and pragmatic peculiarities and nuances. The study highlights the broadness of expressive means in the English sports discourse, which is conditioned by their multiple functionalities. The article provides the diagrams presenting the occurrence and frequency of lexical units (emotive lexicon in sports reports; phraseological units and tropes intended to express negative evaluation in a sports report). The research results and findings contribute to the development of sports discourse as the object of linguistic study.

Keywords

• спортивный дискурс
• пейоративная оценка
• лексико-стилистический уровень оценки
• эмотивная лексика
• спортивный репортаж
• sports discourse
• pejorative evaluation
• lexical and stylistic levels of assessment
• emotive lexicon
• sport reporting