uperlatives, especially when used colloquially, may even be exaggerated, and this may be a point of interest in your interpretation of the passage) .degrees of comparison convey the degree of expressiveness produced by the adjective of indication and so, it is very close to the stylistic category of expressiveness. This is particularly fair for elative, the grammatical meaning of which is irrelatively great measure of indication: the sweetest baby, the newest fashion of all. Along with superlative degree of adjective other devices of syntactical order is used. Compare: the sweetest baby, the sweetest of babies; a foolish wife, a foolish, foolish wife, a most foolish wife, the most foolish of wives, my fool of a wife, my wife is foolishness herself, she is as foolish as can be, is she as foolish as all that? familiar-colloquial style of speech or just in colloquial speech intensification with that is possible .: The girl is THAT stupid.literary-colloquial style of speech an emotionally-appraisal component is introduced in pair use with appraisal word: nice and warm, good and strong , etc .: Oh, Josie, you are a naughty girl, you really are. I was hoping you d have everything nice and clean and tidy when I came in.degree of comparison includes only qualitative and quantitative adjectives. Use of comparative and superlative degrees for other adjectives, which this degree is not characteristic for, spares the adjective with great expressiveness .: You can not be deader than the dead (E. Hemingway)., Since syntactical forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives are characteristic only for monosyllabic and few polysyllabic adjectives, violation from this rule can have a stylistic function. In the following example the word curiouser amuses the reader and at the same time gives away the nervousness of the little heroine, which is accentuated in the author s commentaries: «Curiouser and curiouser!» She cried (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English) (L. Carroll. Alice in Wonderland) .violation of valency in the form of junctioning the suffix of the superlative degree with the base of a noun is expressive, comic and sticks in memory very well , and that satisfies the basic requirements of the language of advertising .: The orangemostest drink in the world.can see the rise of expressiveness in colloquial speech. For example, the adjective idiotic characterizing the mental abilities of a person should be used with a noun of person. However, it is often collocates with object names, rendering the irritation of the speaker :: My idiotic shoe-laces are undone.are a number of adjectives and adverbs which may be classified as interjections. Among them are the following: terrible, awful, great, wonderful, splendid. When they are used as interjections they are not used in their logical dictionary meanings. In most cases they are used in their emotive meanings as intensifiers.that characterize objects by their physical qualities do not contain any evaluation. But as a metaphor they can have it. For example, dark horse in its direct meaning this word combination does not contain any evaluation, but in metaphoric cal negru it expresses the negative connotation. This example shows that adjectives play a very important role in creating metaphoric epithets. It is should be pointed out that metaphoric epithet is the result of second speech attribution of lexical unit.adjectives of evaluation which include descriptive semes which mean the adjectives of so called private evaluation, can easily assume metaphoric meanings. Transference of sign with object of physical world on other objects makes up one of the most important method of metaphorization: crude line -crude smile -straight line - straight answer.adjective expressing positive or negative judgment about what it is calling, that is approval or disapproval (time-tested method, out-of-date method) possesses a component of evaluation.can be expressed both in explicit and implicit forms .: Electric guitar packages are typically an all in one answer to the problem of getting someone started with an electric guitar. Is it the best way to go for a beginner though? To the use of the adjective good in the superlative degree, evaluation and subjectivity are shown in explicit form. Despite the fact that, the adjective best has strikingly positive evaluation in this case it acquires negative connotation. It is due to the fact that in this case the adjective best is used in the sentence which bears the type of rhetorical question.adjectives that are not normally used in a comparative degree are used with this category they are charged with a strong expressive power.:Mrs. Thompson, Old Man fellow s housekeeper had found him deader than a doornail ... is a vivid example of grammatical transposition of the second type built on the incongruity of the lexical and grammatical meanings.the following sentence the unexpec...
