EMOTIVITY AS A LINGUISTIC CATEGORY

Abstract

This article discusses the term “emotivity” as a linguistic category: its functions, essence. A classification of emotions by A. Vezhbitskaya is given. At the beginning of the article, he emphasizes how important it is to separate such concepts as “emotionality” and “emotivity”. Ways of verbalization of emotions by means of different language tools are given. The essence of emotivity is considered in the works of various linguists, such as: A. Vezhbitskaya, I.V. Arnold, V.I. Shakhovsky, Yu.D. Apresyan. The prototypical model of A. Wierzbitskaya is described, which presented descriptions that are prototypes of behavior or a scenario in which the order of representation of thoughts, desires and feelings is presented. The concept of “emo-seme” was revealed, which is “a specific type of semes, correlated with the emotions of the speaker and presented in the semantics of the word as a combination of the semantic feature “emotion” and seme concretizers “love”, “contempt”, “humiliation”, etc.