Axiological Aspects of Stylized English Communication: Developing a System of Positive Evaluation Language

Abstract

Positive assessment in English communication performs a fundamentally significant function, linking informative fragments, contributing to the productive development of communication, and supporting the principle of communicative cooperation. The choice of positive evaluative language, as well as auxiliary means of modeling the positive evaluative potential of an utterance, often determines the success of the communicative situation. The aim of the study, the results of which are presented in the article, was to systematize English positive evaluative remarks with subsequent qualitative and quantitative analysis of frequency of lexical axiological markers and expressive syntactic constructions in the context of the discourse parameters in the stylized communicative space. The material of the research is presented by positive evaluative utterances within the framework of stylized English communication, represented by the drama discourse. Despite a certain artistic transformation of colloquial speech in the context of drama, the latter reliably reflects the general use of evaluative structures in everyday speech, since stylized communication borrows the most typical from the natural and fixes it in the most common form. The study has enabled the authors to develop a system of positive linguoaxiological markers, which includes three classes of linguoaxiological means, depending on their belonging to the language level; as well as functional and semantic potential of positive-evaluative linguistic means in terms of discourse analysis. Special attention was paid to the linguistic means of intensifying and de-intensifying the evaluative potential of a remark, which allows communicants to model an expressive message plan depending on the discursive characteristics of the communicative situation. Thus, the analysis of the positive evaluative aspect of stylized English communication made it possible to fully represent the entire range of positive evaluative means that communicants have, which provides an opportunity to express not only a general positive view of the object, but also to convey the nuances and shades of evaluative attitudes. In this regard, the presented algorithm of research analysis can be used for further systemic studies of axiological parameters of other discourse practices.