FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF CHARACTERS’ EXPRESSIVE VOCABULARY IN ANIMATED ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SERIES

Abstract

The article investigates linguistic features of English animated series. Special attention is paid to the interpretation of the term “expressivity”. The research is focused on the variants of expression at the lexical level. The layers of expressive vocabulary are differentiated. The peculiarities of emotive vocabulary, vocabulary expressing emotions and vocabulary communicating emotions are revealed. The linguistic mechanisms of expressivity are considered in the light of speech, social and communicative contexts. The expressive fund of animation discourse is investigated. Attention is concentrated on the functional potential of expressive vocabulary. A functional and linguistic analysis of the expressive vocabulary of the animated English-language series “Gravity Falls” is carried out in order to recreate its emotional and semantic space. The author attempts to deepen the whole understanding of linguistic processes occurring in modern animation discourse.