LINGUOCULTURAL ASPECT OF NOMINATION OF EMOTIONS IN THE POEM “TO A YOUTHFUL FRIEND” BY GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Abstract

The article discusses nominations of emotions that reveal the essence of the concept of friendship in the poem “To a youthful friend” by George Gordon Byron. The study of the peculiarities of the verbalization of mental processes and emotional states of people, as well as the ways of expressing their inner experiences and sensations, seems relevant to researchers from various fields – from psychology to cultural linguistics. The article highlights the views of specialists in the fields of cultural linguistics and cognitive linguistics on the concept of “linguistic personality”, as well as some possible ways of its interpretation, and considers the cognitive essence of the term “emotional concept”. The classification and analysis of the nominations of emotions within the framework of the poetic work in question from the point of view of their semantic content, the identification of the specific features of their interaction allow us to draw conclusions about the individual characteristics of the author’s perception of the concept of “friendship” as emotionally charged. During the analysis of the semantic structure of the concept “friendship” based on the material of the poem “To a youthful friend” by George Gordon Byron, the researcher identifies a list of semes that actualize it. The conclusion is that the analysis of metaphorical descriptions of the manifestations of emotions allows to identify culturally determined associative relationships between various objects of reality, to comprehend the peculiarities of the author’s individual vision of the concept in question, expressed in the metaphorical use of nominations of emotions.