Keywords
British literature
Emotions
Category of emotionality
Emotivity
Lexis of emotions
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Abstract
Emotions are an integral part of human life. Being one of the most complex areas of human behavior, the emotional sphere requires a thorough research in many domains, including linguistics. There is no difference between emotions people experience nowadays and centuries ago but the ways they verbalize them are constantly changing. That is why it is of particular concern to track possible changes in ways of expressing emotions over time. To highlight the ways of expressing emotions in the English language through the prism of the diachrony is the aim of the study. In this paper we compare the ways of expressing emotions on the grammatical and lexical levels on the material of the classical romance novel of the XIX century and the modern romance novel. The dataset counting more than 1300 examples was derived in “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen and “Me before You” by Jojo Moyes. A characteristic feature of the so-called "female writing" is that the world is depicted through the perception of a woman. What is more, women writers pay the closest attention to the emotional life of people, their feelings and thoughts. The analysis was carried out on the basis of continuous sampling method using the lexical and semantic, contextual and comparative approach. The findings argue that both J. Moyes and J. Austen in the framework of the same culture and language but under different historical and social circumstances employ a wide spectrum of the lexical and grammatical means of expressing emotions with a great contrast in use of such means as vulgarisms and jargonisms, interrogative constructions and negation. The results may find implementation not only in translation studies, psycho- and sociolinguistics and cultural linguistics but in teaching English literature as well.
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