Use of English Language and Phraseology to Study the Emotional Expression of Language Learners

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Department of General Linguistics and Turkology, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia

2 Department of Tatar Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

The study of the methods of emotionality verbalization based on English phraseology allows us to present the possibilities of language and speech in a single complex and contributes to understanding the mentality and psychology of the English linguistic personality. Imagery, emotional expressiveness and axiological features characterize phraseological units. These features are often the most essential ones for phraseological units. If independent parts of speech have the categorical meanings of objectivity, action, state or attribute, which ensures their nominative function, in the case of phraseological units, the weakening of this function occurs due to the strengthening of emotional and figurative-expressive functions. The article discusses phraseological units that express several related emotions of varying degrees and intensity, these emotions can be subsumed into phraseosemantic subgroups. All these phraseosemantic subgroups are combined into three main groups: 1) those expressing positive emotions; 2) those expressing negative emotions; 3) those expressing neutral emotions. We have identified two phraseosemantic subgroups denoting positive emotions: 1) joy and happiness; 2) calmness and ease. In each of the subgroups, phraseological units consist of the components with national specifics. The active components of the phraseosemntic subgroup “joy and happiness” are sky, happiness, heart, soul, etc. The active components of the phraseosemntic subgroup “calmness and ease” are somaticisms, soul, heart, soul, etc. Having got rid of negative emotions, such as anxiety and anger, a person calms down and becomes happy.

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 522-527

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