Comparative analysis of verbs characterizing the content of speech in English and Russian

the article provides a comparative analysis of verbs characterizing the content of speech in English and Russian. Verbs that characterize the content of speech describe speech according to the peculiarities of choosing the subject of speech, the content and capacity of information, objectivity, influencing someone, agreement, disagreement in conversation, expressions of indignation, denial. This group of verbs represents a large number of subcategories with the semantics "significance of the reported", "reciprocity of the speech act", "deviation from the truth", "self-praise". In both English and Russian, they can be expressed in various ways and means. In English, there is a lesser role of metaphorization in involving verbs of various lexico-semantic groups than in Russian. In Russian, a variety of meanings is achieved by attaching different affixes to the same root. Therefore, Russian affixal formations have a wide range of verb derivatives that express different shades of refinement depending on the nature of the action. Most of these verbs have multiple meanings. Their meaning is revealed only in context. These meanings are combined in the semantic structure of the verbs of this group with the meaning of thinking, behavior, and action.

English, Russian, comparative analysis, verbs of speech, content of speech, verb constructions, root morphemes, interlanguage pairs, metaphorization