Emotywny komponent znaczenia przymiotników negatywnie waloryzowanych w języku rosyjskim

The article analyses adjectives excerpted from a dictionary entitled Senses, Emotions and Adjectives of the Russian Language and evaluated by respondents as causing very unpleasant emotions (marked in the dictionary with three minuses). An attempt was made to delineate the emotive component of their meaning on the basis of data from dictionaries providing explanations, as well as those presenting associations, accompanied by contexts of their usage traced in the corpus. The data contributing to the analysis can be employed in order to reconstruct emotional images of the world and national cultural specificity of expressing emotions. Additionally, they can be used to scrutinize and shape emotional competence, while the methodology of delineating the emotive component of meaning with the use of affective expression and their associations can be employed in further research into emotive lexical items.