THE STATE OF RESEARCH ON EMOTIONAL-EVALUATIVE UNITS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LINGUISTICS
Abstract
This article examines the level of research devoted to emotional-evaluative units in English and Uzbek linguistics. The paper discusses the development of the major theoretical notions used in this field, including evaluation, appraisal, affect, stance, and attitude, and explains their relation to emotionality, expressiveness, and axiological meaning. Particular attention is paid to the contribution of S. Hunston, G. Thompson, J. R. Martin, P. R. R. White, J. Read, J. Carroll, A. Partington, and A. Wierzbicka. The article argues that emotional-evaluative units should not be treated only as isolated lexical items, since they function at semantic, pragmatic, stylistic, and discourse levels simultaneously. It is also shown that recent corpus-based and translation-oriented studies confirm the continuing relevance of evaluative language research in modern linguistics. On this basis, the article identifies the principal methodological approaches that may be effectively applied in the comparative study of emotional-evaluative units in English and Uzbek.
Keywords
emotional-evaluative units, evaluation, appraisal, affect, judgement, appreciation, discourse, pragmatics, semantic prosody, connotation.
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