Linguistic Characteristics of Emotionally Colored Lexicon in Russian Political Discourse

Interest in political events, statesmen, and their linguistic behaviors is gaining increasing significance in society. This article examines emotionally colored lexical characteristics in the speeches of Russian politicians, particularly S. Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and V. Shuvaev, former ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

The theoretical significance of this article lies in the development of a linguistic mechanism for the study of emotions in Russian political discourse.

The article focuses on evaluative, expressive, and figurative categories as the actualizers of emotivity. The evaluative category is realized through lexicon with positive and negative connotations, introductory words, euphemisms, and dysphemisms. The expressive category is represented by elevated style lexicon and spoken language, as well as slang. The figurative category predominantly includes figurative means, specifically epithets, metaphors, and metonymy. An important idea is that the speaker's palette of emotions is created by the intensity of the "portions" of the implemented linguistic means.

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