STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC ORGANIZATION OF ENGLISH PEJORATIVE LEXIS DENOTING MALE REFERENTS IN LITERARY TEXTS
The study aims to investigate the relationship between lexical-semantic group (LSG) affiliation and types of semantic motivation (metaphor, metonymy, and direct nomination) in English absolute pejoratives denoting male referents. Using a sample of 49 lexical units extracted from the novels “Ministry of Time”, “Run on R...