ON THE QUESTION OF LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONALITY IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

The article discusses issues related to the lexical means of expressing emotionality in Russian and English. Emotional vocabulary is more common in dialogic communicative speech. The interjections of both languages act as a means of emotional meaning. They set the tone of emotionality for the entire sentence in which they are used. Interjections are used as independent exclamation points. Once in context, interjections are arbitrary with respect to its semantic and syntactic structure. Interjections are the key to identifying emotional vocabulary in general. The peculiarity of the semantics of interjections is based on the fact that, while performing the emotional function of language, they do not perform a nominative function. In both languages, lexical means of expressing emotionality are widespread. Such words are used in communicative and dialogical speech, sometimes as independent exclamation or interrogative sentences. These words have similarities with interjections due to their common emotional meaning. They are periodically used in speech, turning into signs of emotion. Their numerous use in various contexts, both oral, colloquial, and in the texts of works of art, confirms this.