Псих ненормальный и змея подколодная (о полнозначных словах в роли интенсификатора)

Abstract

The article examines expressive designations of a person in a analogous minimum context. The semantic peculiarity and the functions of attributes in an expressive word-combination as well as such word-combinations as a whole are revealed. An inference about an expressive speech nomination which can be corrected by the conditions of speech generation and by the extent of emotional strain of the speaker is made. A structural variation with a postposed attribute is regarded as an «expressive stress-model» of spontaneous oral speech and as a nomination of enhanced expressive significance.