CONCEPTUAL SEMANTICS OF INTENSIFICATION/DEINTENSIFICATION AND ITS COGNITIVE TYPOLOGICAL STATUS

Abstract

This article touches upon conceptual semantics of intensifica-tion/deintensification and its cognitive typological status for the first time in Modern English, which allowed the author to reveal the universal features of the verbalizers and the factors preconditioning the latter. Conceptual semantics of "intensification/deintensification", like a number of other semantics, is a macro-semantic category based on the opposition of conceptual micro-semantics such as intensification/enlargement and diminution (reduction or weakening). "enhance/increase/ or decrease (reduce or weaken) is used to reduce. From the cognitive typological point of view, the conceptual semantics of "intensification/deintensification" based on conceptual opposition is a semantics that exists in the thinking - conceptosphere of the speaker/writer of every language, and it has a universal nature.