Kulchytska O. Linguistic means of realizing pejoration in the novels by S. Mayer.

This research focuses on the study of linguistic means of realizing pejoration in the novels by S. Mayer. The study is carried out in the antropocentic paradigm of modern linguistic studies based on text-oriented and functional coordinate systems. A complex of general scholarly, traditional and modern linguistic methods have been applied to the study of pejorative lexemes. An intensification scale has been elaborated and applied to estimate the expressiveness of pejoratives. Complex methodology of investigating pejorative vocabulary enabled comprehensive study of pejoration, scrupulous analysis of its components from different perspectives, helped to perceive the nature of pejoratives. Pejoratives are defined as lexemes that have negative, emotionally loaded expressive evaluation and create preconditions for the achievement of an illocutionary goal. Lexical, semantic, stylistic, pragmatic and cognitive parameters of pejoratives have been investigated.