VERBALIZATIONS OF THE EMOTIONS “FEAR” AND “ANXIETY” IN THE MODERN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FINANCIAL-ECONOMIC JOURNALISM

Abstract

The article deals with linguistic representation of the emotions “FEAR” and “ANXIETY” in modern English-language financial-economic journalism. The purpose of the study is to determine the specific features of the verbalization of these emotions in the texts of English-language electronic media in the field of economy and finance. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time it provides a detailed and systemic analysis of the linguistic representation of semantically similar names of emotions “FEAR” and “ANXIETY” in modern financial-economic journalism. The urgency of the chosen topic is due to the lack of knowledge of the verbalization of emotions in financial-economic journalism and the interdisciplinary nature of the phenomenon under study. Modern conditions of international economic and business relations are reflected in the language of electronic periodicals, the integral elements of which are usually attributed to the emotional and expressive impact on the reader. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were used: descriptive, continuous sampling, and methods of dominant, distributive and component analysis. The scope of the study embraces the vocabulary of English-language economic journalism. The object of the study includes the structural, semantic and functional properties of the language representations of the emotions “FEAR” and “ANXIETY” in the texts of articles on financial-economic topics published in electronic versions and posted on the official websites of popular English-language media. The practical significance of the work consists in the possibility of using the materials presented in teaching the courses of linguistic analysis of discourse and English language stylistics, as well as in the development of special courses and seminars on business and financial English. The study demonstrates the importance of this group of vocabulary for the English-language worldview in relation to the field of economy and finance, which is reflected in the diversity of both the composition of the words nominating emotions and their syntagmatic environment.