LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EVALUATION IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TEXTS OF PUBLICISTIC DISCOURSE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The article analyzes in detail the specific characteristics associated with the implementation of the linguistic evaluation category realization specific features in modern English-language texts of journalistic discourse of artificial intelligence technology. In the course of the study, special attention is paid to the identification of the peculiarities of the means used by the authors of these texts to express evaluative information. The study reveals the significant role of systemic and textual linguistic means used to express evaluation, analyzes the processes of linguistic specialization associated with these means, and also reveals the conditions that determine the axiological connotation of lexical units and word combinations in journalistic texts devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence. The study also examined the role of metaphor and personification in expressing evaluativeness.