Corpus of lexical units with valuable component and its pragmatic potential in Spanish

the article is devoted to the problem of lexical means of expressing the category of evaluation and their pragmatic potential in the Spanish language. Due to the need to express a particular attitude to an object or subject, lexical means acquire great importance within its framework. Considering the huge layer of lexical units in the language, using the continuous sampling method, we examined a certain part of the words and phrases expressed by various parts of speech in Spanish. The category of evaluation is one of the universal categories. In various fields of knowledge, there are different approaches to its definition. Thus, "evaluation" is considered from the point of view of philosophy, logic, psychology, linguistics, etc. At the same time, the evaluation as a whole consists of both explicit and implicit elements, for example, the evaluation scale often acts as an implicit element. It is noteworthy that any evaluative values and features can be compared and form a scale. On this scale, positive, neutral and negative segments can be distinguished, which, in turn, are characterized by gradation. The main characteristics of the category of evaluation determine its functions in speech. One of the main functions of the category of evaluation is the expression of the speaker's opinion, demonstrating his or her system of values or the values of the group to which the speaker belongs. Among other functions, it is worth mentioning the creation and maintenance of relations between the addressee and the addresser and the structuring of discourse. The purpose of the article is to theoretically study the corpus of lexical means of expressing the category of evaluation and their pragmatic potential in the Spanish language.

lexical units, evaluation category, pragmatic potential, the Spanish language, linguistics