USE OF NEUTRAL LEXICON IN SPEECH ACTS OF INSULT AS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF CONCEPTUAL DERIVATION

USE OF NEUTRAL LEXICON IN SPEECH ACTS OF INSULT AS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF CONCEPTUAL DERIVATION

Author:  А. A. Ankov, S. V. Balakin

Abstract: 
The article deals with the usage of the second meaning of lexical units in speech acts of insult in French. Basically neutral words take a negative meaning due to the fact that the concepts they verbalize undergo conceptual derivation.

Keywords:  acts of insult, negative meaning, conceptual derivation