REPRESENTATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN PERSON’S BEHAVIOR AND WAYS OF ITS CONVEYING INTO RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article examines similarities and differences in verbalization of negative emotions in people’s behavior in English- and Russian linguocultures based on Emily Bronte’s novel “Wuthering Heights” and its Russian translation. The study focuses on lexical units that act as direct nominations of person’s emotional state and the ways of their conveying into Russian. The authors form and describe 5 lexico-semantic groups of negative emotions: «anger», «disgust», «fear», «sadness», «shame». There are two ways to verbalize character’s emotional state: nomination and expression. The conclusion contains the results of the study: out of 633 identified cases of the use of lexical units expressing negative emotions: 162 units convey «disgust», 143 – «fear», 138 – «sadness», 137 – «anger», 53 – «shame». These emotions are translated into Russian by using syntactic assimilation, modulation, generalization, concretization, compensation and antonymic translation. Their content and emotional coloring are saved. Interlanguage and intercultural translation differences are eliminated.