The structural and lexemic content of an evaluative dicteme in dialogical speech

Medvedeva Yu. I.

The article is devoted to the description of an evaluative dicteme at the semantic, structural and lexematic levels. It provides the initial derivational structure of an evaluative sentence and discusses some typical deviations from the given normative structure occurring in dialogues. The results of the definitional analysis of the evaluative lexis are presented with special attention being paid to the dichotomy of extreme and non-extreme evaluation degrees capable of being implied in the semes of evaluative lexis and its subsequent dichotomous division.

Keywords:dialogical speech, evaluative dicteme, initial derivational structure, evaluative lexis, extreme evaluation.