THE CONCEPTS OF “EMOTHEME” AND “EMOTIVITY” OF THE ARTISTIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The paper examines a problem of distinguishing between the concepts of “emotivity” and “emotionality” in modern Linguistics. Various approaches to the understanding of these terms as well as to their definition are discussed, including the pragmatic aspect and their differentiation from the point of view of Psychology / Linguistics. Special attention is paid to the emotivity of artistic discourse as an object for research in both Emotiology and other linguistic fields, due to the fact that artistic discourse is characterized by an emotive background, as well as similarity to situations of real communication. In addition, the concept of “emotheme” is introduced, and the situations that influence the appearance of emothemes in literary works are described. These situations are illustrated with the help of examples from the English-language artistic discourse. The analysis reveals the correlation between the concepts of “emotheme” and “emotionality” and allows to make conclusion about the influence of emothemes on the general emotionality of the discourse in question.