ASSESSMENT CATEGORY IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE LEXEME ГОЛОВА (HEAD)

Abstract

The article discusses topical issues of linguoaxiology: the category of assessment and the ways of it reflection in Russian. A new linguo-cognitive approach to the study of linguistic assessments of the category “human head” is proposed. The paper uses a complex of methods: the descriptive method, the method for analyzing dictionary definitions, the method of cognitive interpretation of results, the linguocultural commentary. The material for the article is taken from explanatory, phraseological, derivational dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms, as well as from fiction and journalistic works. As a result of the study, the linguistic means representing the assessment of the category “head” are identified and classified, the synonymous series of the corresponding lexeme голова is analyzed, and the assessment scale шs built. The revealed linguistic and national-cultural specificity of the assessment tools made it possible to determine the value attitudes of the native speakers of the Russian language. The results of the research have both theoretical and practical significance and can be used in compiling explanatory dictionaries, also in courses “Linguoculturology”, “Lexicology”, “Linguocognitology”.