WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE CATEGORY OF EMOTIVITY IN A LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE WORKS OF J. HELLER)

Abstract

The expression of an emotional state through words is one of features of fiction that helps to establish contact with the reader, to elicit a certain emotional reaction from him in order to involve the recipient in the events taking place. The article examines the ways of transmitting emotive means of expressions based on the works Catch-22 and Closing Time by an American writer J. Heller, translated by V. Titov, M. Vilensky and G. Krylov. The types of emotional means of expression at the lexical and syntactic levels are considered. Emotiveness is defined in the article as a linguistic category, denoting the ability of language units to reflect a person’s individual experiences of certain emotions. The author states the presence of three lexical groups of emotional means of expression: emotive-connotatives, emotive-affectives and neutral emotives, which are subdivided into a number of subgroups. The results of the analysis of the material show a sharply expressed quantitative discrepancy between emotive-connotatives (62%) and neutral emotives (9%), which can be explained by the lexical and semantic features of the English language.