Lesko K. The Lingvopragmatic Aspect of the Deminutive and Augmentative Derivatives in modern Spanish mass media discourse

The dissertation suggests a complex pragmatic and cognitive approach to the analysis of suffixal derivatives of diminutivity and augmentativity aiming at distinguishing their evaluative and emotive functionality in modern Spanish mass media discourse. With the help of content analysis the quantity of diminutives / augmentatives was specified as well as the types of emotional valuations and connection with the themes of periodical materials were classified. A special attention was paid to syncretic nature of evaluative meaning of the suffixes which were analyzed as well as emotional capability of their expression was revealed. Semantic stylistic peculiarities of proper names and phraseological units with common and occasional use of diminutives / augmentatives were substantiated. Lexicalized diminutive / augmentative lexicalization were depicted and derivational modeling of diminutive derivatives were studied. The gender peculiarities of the diminution / augmentation suffixes as means of transferring of authentic masculinity and feminity in media discourse were inquired.