Figurative meanings of lexemes of the thematic group “divine” in the creation of emotive evaluation in the Russian and Spanish languages (pragmalinguistic approach)

This article provides an emotional assessment of Russian and Spanish vocabulary (including slang), as well as phraseology. For the first time, a comprehensive semantic comparative study of the ways of forming and using evaluative units, reflecting the peculiarities of the perception of the linguistic pictures of the Spanish and Russian languages, has been carried out. The author analyzes the lexical and phraseological material, ways of representation in lexicographic practice, the reasons for the emergence of secondary evaluative meanings. The results obtained allow us to confirm the hypothesis that the belonging of the primary nominative meanings of lexical units to a specific FSH, in our case the “divine” group, leads to the emergence of secondary positive emotional evaluative semantics.Most often, in the secondary estimated values of both Russian and Spanish linguistic units of the FSH “divinity”, the semantics of “beauty, kindness, purity” is realized.Keywords: pragmalinguistics, Spanish, Russian, lexical and phraseological units, figurative meaning, emotional evaluation, FSG, “divinity”, “angel”, “God”.