Ways of forming the invective lexis (based on the Peninsular national variant of the Spanish language and the American national variant of the English language)

The article analyses the main sources of enriching the invective vocabulary in the Peninsular national variant of the Spanish language and the American national variant of the English language: revaluation of the lexical material of the literary language, interaction with the non literary sphere of the language, and foreign borrowings.

invective lexis, jargon, pejoration, euphemization, Spanish, English languages