INTENSITY AS THE LOGICAL BASIS OF GRADATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article discusses current issues of gradational relations in the modern Russian language from the standpoint of studying the intensity of manifestation of logical and semantic extremes in the designation and evaluation of events, signs, qualities. The influence of expressive and modal intensifiers on the limiting or full degree of manifestation of a gradation attribute, variation in intensity, cases of exceeding, and equality of meanings, dividing the whole into equal or unequal shares is considered in the article. The authors use examples to analyze the manifestations in a literary text of gradational relations, their expressive, stylistic and communicative capabilities. This direction is interesting for specialists in the field of linguistics, cognitive linguistics and is perspective for further development.