Author’s name:
Anna V. Korzun – Ufa University of Science and Technology, Ufa, Russia
Abstract:
Today, few people will contest the fact that human life is impossible without society and outside society. Communication with society, its influence on a person (and vice versa) is carried out through communication via language, since communication is the process of transmitting information. Any human communication, in its turn, is strongly linked with emotions. For a long time, the essential role of emotions was not brought to the foreground when studying language, and psycholinguists were the first to draw attention to their importance. Their research, however, was generally limited to classification of emotions and description of the means of their expression in language. This, of course, was no longer enough when in linguistics there arose a question about the role of emotions and their influence on a person in the process of communication (both with other people and with the world around). Emotions, evoked in a person by external stimuli, find their expression in language. The more positive they are, the better the psychological (and then physical) state of a person is, and the more positive the language means of expressing their emotions are. As scholars began to explore this correlation in the second half of the 20th century, their work eventually led to the emergence of a new branch of linguistics, namely: emotive lingvoecology. This new linguistic field focuses on how information received in the process of communication, as well as the method and means of its transmission, affect either success or failure of communication in general, also taking into account the psychophysiological state of communicants. In this paper, using modern English language literary fiction, the author attempts to describe various types of communicative information and ways of its linguistic expression through the lens of emotive lingvoecology, namely: what is the correlation between information, its representation, and ecological/non-ecological communication. In terms of its theoretical framework, this research is based on V. I. Shakhovsky’s fundamental study in the field of linguistics of emotions and emotive lingvoecology. The novelty of the article lies in the author’s attempt to illustrate communicative and emotional situations with examples from English-language literary fiction. The theoretical and practical significance of the article lies in the relative novelty and insufficient attention yet given by scholars to emotive lingvoecology as a new branch of linguistics, which emerged only in the late 19th – early 20th century. The possibility of extrapolating the methods of emotiology (linguistics of emotions) to the analysis of various types of discourse in the light of ecolinguistics opens up broad prospects for further research in this area.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2023-61-1-103-115 |
| Downloads | 308 |
| Key words | ecolinguistics; emotive lingvoecology; emotions; communication; ecology / non-ecology of communication; artistic discourse |