Abstract
Axiological aspect shows a reflection over the phenomena associated not only with semantics, but also with pragmatics, as well as with linguacultural factors. As it can be shown by means of the materials represented in the paper, such lexical units as horoscope and astrology have similar dynamics in terms of increasing/falling popularity. In addition, at the present time, including the period between the late XX and early XXI century, there is a predominance of negative emotions related to these concepts, and this fact can be considered as the evidence of ironic attitude to the LE horoscope and astrology, as well as to this lexical and semantic group in general. To achieve our main goal and objectives, the author used data from the National Corpus of the Russian Language; text fragments were extracted from the corpus by means of continuous sampling technique. The data excerpted from the language corpus allows us to objectify the study, as well as to use elements of statistical analysis based on the quantitative data presented in the corpus. Research procedure included (1) analysis of text fragments containing lexical units mentioned above; (2) analysis of the correlation between those words, on one hand, and positive/negative/neutral parts of the evaluation scale, on the other hand.