The functioning of state category words in speech: ways of intensifying expressive meaning

The article presents a detailed analysis of various means that intensify the expressive meaning of the state category in modern Russian language. The study focuses not only on impersonal predicative words, but also on prepositional-case forms of nouns that act as predicates and represent the thought of a state. The relevance of this study is determined by the increased interest of contemporary linguistics in the problems of state semantics and the necessity of examining it in terms of intensity and expressiveness of the constantly growing lexical stock of the state category. The characteristic features of lexical intensifiers, which have different semantic potentials and additional nuances in specific communicative situations, are described and defined. Various means of intensification contribute to enriching emotional expressiveness and allow speakers to convey a wider range of emotions and states more accurately. The research employs methods of structural-semantic analysis, descriptive and classificatory methods, as well as a continuous sampling method for selecting practical linguistic material, contextual methods, and linguosemantic analysis of the meanings of the state category and their interaction with various intensifiers. The aim of this article is to examine and clarify the structural-semantic features of the means that contribute to the representation of the intensification of expressiveness of the state category at different levels of the Russian language. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the systematic description of linguistic methods of expressing the expressiveness of the state category at different levels of language, as well as in identifying the emotional-expressive features of adjectival and adverbial intensifiers. Special attention is given to specific means of expressing the meaning of intensity at the phonetic, lexical, word-formation-morphological, and syntactic levels of the Russian language. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the contribution of the results obtained to the theory of the linguistic category of state. In the concluding part of the work, the author notes the prospects for further research on the semantics of the state in the aspect of expressiveness.