Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (11)
- Authors
- Nefedov, Sergey T.
- Contact information
- Nefedov, Sergey T.: Saint Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;
- Keywords
- evaluation language; implicit evaluation; explicit evaluation; scientific communicative practice; evaluation catalyst
- Abstract
The article focuses on the problem of the latent valuation of linguistic units, which is relevant to socio-communicative evaluation theory, linguistics of hidden meanings, and inferential pragmatics. Theoretical and methodological support of analytical procedures in these research areas posits that the evaluation “parasitizes” on a number of linguistic means that have no evaluating function on the system-linguistic level. These include negation, epistemic modal components, connectors, subjunctive, modal verbs, and other egocentric words and expressions that point to the discourse actors and mark their presence in social interaction. It turns out that the abovementioned linguistic means are able to actualize the hidden valuation meaning of text statements. We assume that these means as well as the direct carriers of the evaluation – evaluative lexemes – facilitate the creation of deep semantic connections for comparison in their cognitive bases on the level of meaning. Therefore, their participation in the implicit expression of the evaluation is natural and anticipated. The uncovered functional similarity allows us to group them together under a unified category of evaluation catalysts. For the first time in language analysis, a theoretical comparison of carriers / catalysts of the evaluation is constituted, which makes it possible to obtain a more complete and systematic picture of the linguistic means involved in the evaluation. The problem of recognizing hidden evaluative content is solved by using the corpus of German-language linguistic articles. As a result, it is shown how evaluation catalysts steer the evaluation interpretation of scientific statements in the context of research practice
- Pages
- 1699–1712
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997-1370-0945
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/148786
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