Research On Russian Verb’s Evaluative Function

Evaluation system is completed resources using language to express attitude.Evaluation is central to meaning of discourse. Interpersonal meaning analysis ofdiscourse will involve evaluation. Expression evaluation can be conducted inmany ways such as tone, words and syntax. Verb plays special role in expressionevaluation by words. Verb in Russian language, as major predicate in a sentence, isnot only rich in vocabulary meanings but also various with specific style, tense,form, person and number. Thus, scholars focus on and study verbs from manyangles.Research on Russian verb’s evaluative function has theoretical and practicalvalue. Each type of style, tense, form, person and number present different modalmeaning in certain context. The essay aims to deepen understanding of evaluation,rich research on Russian verb and promote Russian education through studyingevaluative function of Russian verb, summery theoretical basis of Russianexpression evaluation and expressive and evaluative usage of Russian verb’s style,tense, form, person and number in different context, conduct contrastive analysison usage of verbs in different discourses in terms of expression evaluation.Firstly, the essay gives full theoretical introduction on linguistic evaluationtheory and verb as evaluative means. Secondly the essay analyzes usage of style,tense, form, person and number in terms of expression evaluation. The essay findsRussian verb present very complicated usage in evaluating expression in differentcontext, but each usage is not isolated. It is due to the fact of inseparable betweenstyle, and tense and form. Verb gives different evaluative embodiments in differentdiscourses, which depends on many factors such as discourse genre features, stylistic features and author’s writing habit.Thus, to understand rich semantic, pragmatic connotation and writer intentionand interpersonal message of discourse, it requires the study of evaluative functionof Russian verb to base on discourse to conduct multiple evaluative approachesand holistic analysis.