Abstract
The article deals with the role the individual author's emotional concept JOY plays in the plot formation of the literary work. The aim of the paper is to determine how the representation of the joy concept reflects the key conflict in the novels "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London and in the novels "Of Human Bondage" and "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham. In order to reach the aim, we use the following methods: conceptual, contextual, definitional analyses, and cognitive modeling method. The methodology for conducting the study involves 1) the identification of the conflict of the literary works reviewed; 2) the analysis of the primary, secondary and implicit representation of the JOY concept in these works; 3) the determination of what plot element and in what way is expressed in the language and what hidden information is given by the verbal representation of the joy concept. Thus, the research results manifest themselves in the detection of two similar oppositions: the North-South opposition is found in the novels by Jack London and the Genius-Philistine opposition is in the novels by W. Somerset Maugham. We come to the conclusion that the verbal representation of the JOY concept illustrates the similarities and differences between the categories "North", "Genius", "South", "Philistine" which are based on the characters` attitude towards the key elements of the conflict formation, which are freedom, love, religion, success, self-expression, new experience, welfare.
Highlights
Nowadays, we are witnessing the constantly increasing attention paid to the study of emotional concepts
As we have already said in this paper, we examine the conflict expressed in the oppositions North-South and Genius" and "Philistine: momentary (Genius)-Philistine through the prism of the representation of the JOY concept
In order to depict the content of the JOY concept, we examine the primary representation of the JOY concept: we determine the frequency of the usage of linguistic units representing the JOY concept in each category and determine the meanings that these units carry in each category
Summary
We are witnessing the constantly increasing attention paid to the study of emotional concepts. The keen interest in these concepts is generated by the close connection of cognitive linguistics with many fields of our life where emotions play a significant role: biology, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, literary studies, etc. It is agreed that having a strong influence on peoples physical and mental health emotions are often regarded in quite a similar way by people from all over the world.The fact that it is extremely difficult to detect individual forms of the perception of emotions make their role in revealing some specific aspects of the national and individual picture of the world significant. The aim of this article is to define how the verbal representation of the emotional concept JOY reflects the key conflict in the novels "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London and in the novels "Of Human Bondage" and "The Moon and Sixpence" by W.
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