EMOTIONAL CONCEPT OF “HAPPINESS” IN ENGLISH NICKNAME NOMINATIONS

Abstract

In modern linguistics there is a growing interest in the onomastic vocabulary study in general and, in particular, in informal additional names as an anthroponymic category, taking into account functional-semantic, emotional-evaluative, socio-cultural characteristics. In our study, nicknames are characterized as emotional language units (emotives) designed to express the recipients emotions and/or to emotionally influence the recipients, using a wide language tools range. The creation nickname mechanism choice nominations depends on what nominative task is performed during the nomination, and what motivated features underlie the rethinking. Emotional nicknames convey the subject's attitude to the object and express generally positive or generally negative emotions (love / affection, pride / honor, humiliation, shame, fear, happiness) in interpersonal communication. Emotional associations, as well as their comprehension and verbalization in linguistic personalities – individual, within a certain culture, social group, people, share common popular stereotypes and consciously verbalize them in appropriate communicative situations. The emotional concept of HAPPINESS has a special meaning and value for creating an emotional world picture, which we find in the basic conceptosphere English language meanings (concepts). In the philosophical interpretation, happiness is the human state, which corresponds to the greatest inner satisfaction with the existence conditions, life’s fullness and consciousness, the human realization purpose. In our work it is analyzed that verbalized HAPPINESS emotions are expressed in secondary nicknames – collective consciousness units, knowledge, represented by a linguistic realizations number that reflect the cultural English-speaking linguistics values and are formed as a result of subjective interpretation and regulation. Having a common categorical feature – the secondary nomination, nicknames act as words with a second artistic plan, as associative background carriers, which evokes in the communicators` minds certain images and ideas.