Functional-Stylistic and Emotional-Expressive Gradation of Evaluative Meanings of Zoomorphisms in the Russian Language.

The article is devoted to the description of the most commonly used zoomorphisms of the modern Russian language from the point of view of their functional-stylistic and emotional-expressive marking based on the linguostylistic and lexicographic analysis of language units. The study is based on twelve of the most commonly used zoomorphisms of the Russian language. To solve the tasks, the method of scientific description, stylistic and textual analysis techniques, and statistical calculations were used. Particular attention is paid to modeling the "scale of stylistic oppositions" (O. A. Krylova), on the basis of two versions of which (functional-stylistic and emotional-expressive) comparative data on the types of stylistic coloring of zoomorphisms were obtained according to dictionary sources. The conducted stylistic analysis showed that zoomorphisms, on the one hand, have a high emotional-evaluative potential (mostly negative), and on the other hand, they balance on the edge of colloquial literary language and Russian expressive vernacular; their evaluative potential in the study is specified with the help of both scales of stylistic oppositions.