Joy emotion verbalization means in American and British variants of modern English

Abstract

Cherkass Irina Anatolyevna

The article is devoted to the study of ways of expressing joy in the British and American versions of the modern English language. Joy is one of the dominant human emotion, possessing certain characteristics of linguacultural and ethnic specificity, and has specific ways and means of linguistic expression. The aim of the study is a comparison of the complex means nominating the emotion of joy through the analysis of literary texts of American and British authors, followed by the identification of common and specific features.Thetheoretical interestdeterminesthespecificityoflinguistic and cultural aspects of emotional speech. Experience of joy is associated with a range of positive emotions (pleasure, enjoyment, delight, admiration, etc.). Because of this multiplicity of linguistic representation is considered difficult emotions that imply description. Qualitative characteristics of the analyzed language means can be provided in the form of three groups: lexical-semantic, grammatical and stylistic. Lexico-semantic group includes emotive adjectives, interjections, idioms and intensifiers. Grammatical group is clich d emotive structures, participle constructions, parenthesis. Stylistic means group is the most numerous, it includes: metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole, oxymoron, repetition, anadiplosis, graduation, inversion, parallelism, polisindeton. The studied emotion manifests ethnic mentality, a system of national character representations.

Key words: emotions, emotion «joy», expressiveness, associative and emotive vocabulary, intensifiers, idioms with emotive load, stylistic devices, the transfer of emotional information with the value of joy, the system of ideas about national character