EMOTIONALLY COLOURED VERBS IN THE SPEECHES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POLITICIANS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of emotionally coloured verbs and their evaluative possibilities in the language of politics. The emotionally coloured verbs with the negative evaluative component are scarce but predominate over the emotionally coloured verbs with positive assessment in the speeches of British and American politicians. They function as a very effective means of assessment with the assistance of which an orator expresses his evaluative attitude to the object of assessment. However, such verbs tend to influence indirectly the political image of the orator himself.

Keywords

• emotionally coloured verbs
• negative assessment
• evaluative lexis
• political image
• a language personality
• “identity card”
• political speech
• эмоционально окрашенные глаголы
• негативная оценка
• оценочная лексика
• политический имидж
• языковая личность
• «визитная карточка»
• политическая речь