The main purpose of communication activity is not only to describe events, but also to evaluate them emotionally or expressively. This article is dedicated to the description of the phenomena of emotional evaluation, expressiveness and emotionality (emotivity) on the material of the vocabulary of the Russian language. The author suggests the criteria for identifying this type of impact, analyzes it in detail. The results of the presented Emotional-evaluative dictionary EMOS can be taken into account both in the lexicographical description and in automatic translation as well as in teaching Russian as a foreign language.