Lexical Means of Expressing Expressiveness in the Speech of an English Teacher
Keywords:
expressiveness of the teacher's speech behavior, lexical intensifiers, discursive markers, lexical repetitions, approximators, deictic wordsAbstract
The article substantiates the importance of using lexical expressive means in the speech of an English teacher. The authors identify several groups of lexical means of creating expressiveness within the framework of teacher-student interaction. A number of lexical means of expressing expressiveness are cliched, which reduces their emotive potential. Metaphors, epithets and irony have a high degree of expressiveness in pedagogical discourse.