Abstract
The purpose of the article is to describe the gender peculiarities of the objectification of emotions in the verbal and non-verbal aspects of the communicative behavior of female and male characters in a literary text. Of interest is the study of the features of the representation of emotions in the literary text, taking into account the factor of gender influence on the communicative behavior of a person and the choice of language means. Text fragments which most clearly described the emotional experiences and states of female and male characters were selected by a continuous sampling method from the modern literary compositions of the 20th - 21st centuries written in Russian by women and men. Features of emotion explication were analyzed taking into account gender identity in texts of literary prose. Gender preferences in the choice of language means of expressing emotions in speech were identified. The following research methods were used to achieve the objectives: a descriptive method involving analysis, comparison and classification of language facts; contextual analysis method. The practical significance of the work is the possibility of applying the main conclusions and results of the investigation in theoretical courses in linguistic studies of emotions and gender.
Highlights
The relevance of the research is mainly determined by the current development trends of anthropocentric linguistics and the increased interest in the analysis of linguistic means, the nominating phenomena of human nature, and by the importance of a comprehensive study of means and methods of representation of emotions in art communication, namely the gender objectification of emotions in verbal and non-verbal aspects of communicative behavior of a person in a literary text
The gender approach in linguistic research is determined by the need to consider the communicative behavior of an individual in relation to cultural traditions, norms and stereotypes [12]
The gender specifics of the representation of the emotional state of a character in a literary text is actualized by nominations that stereotypically objectify male and female expressions of emotions, which are represented by gender-marked lexical means, as well as kinetic and phonation-prosodic components
Summary
The relevance of the research is mainly determined by the current development trends of anthropocentric linguistics and the increased interest in the analysis of linguistic means, the nominating phenomena of human nature, and by the importance of a comprehensive study of means and methods of representation of emotions in art communication, namely the gender objectification of emotions in verbal and non-verbal aspects of communicative behavior of a person in a literary text. "Everything in a person is driven by emotions, which form the motivational basis of his activity" [1]. At the present stage of development of linguistics, emotiology has been formed and is actively developing as a separate branch of linguistics, which is aimed at studying the laws of language representation of emotions
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