GENERAL-EVALUATIVE PREDICATES “GOOD” AND “BAD” IN THE MODELS OF “VALUE SHIFTS” (BASED ON THE DATA OF THE POETIC CORPUS IN THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS)

The paper examines “value shifts” realized in representative contexts of the use of general-evaluative predicates good and bad in the role of words of the category of state (impersonal-predicative words). The material of the study is language data extracted from the poetic corpus in the Russian National Corpus. The following models are covered: good + infinitive construction (denoting something bad) / good, that R. (denoting something bad) ↔ bad + infi nitive construction (denoting something good) / bad, that R. (denoting something good). The presence of such contexts means the discursive implementation of the individual author’s assessment as something good in relation to what is commonly considered something bad (and vice versa). On the other hand, in poetic discourse there is a phenomenon of resolution or elimination of “value shifts”. Also, the analysis of the material confirms the value asymmetry of the members of the opposition good / bad, where bad acts as a marked member, contextually conditioned and thus more specialized in compatibility. It is concluded that the analyzed “value shifts” are a very characteristic feature of the language of Russian poetry, which is characterized by aesthetic attitudes to the search for new means of artistic expression, especially if complex and internally contradictory states of the world or states of the human soul are described.