Liliia Boichuk
Vinnytsia State M.Kotsyubynskyi Pedagogical University
Scientific Supervisor: I.E. Grachova, PhD
THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS IN THE BOOK “HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS”
With the help of various verbal means we can convey our emotions, feelings and impressions. Emotionality has a categorical status at different levels of the language system and in speech – phonological, lexical, grammatical, at the level of sentences and text. With the help of such means, various authors fill their short stories and novels with liveliness and brightness, which attracts their readers and makes them fall in love with their work.
The means of expressing emotions in language can be divided into prosodic, morphological, lexical, grammar.
Prosody is the doctrine of stress, tone, intonation, that is, suprasegmental units of sound [1]. Sometimes prosody may be the only means sufficient to make a neutral statement become emotional. «It does not hurt them – you’ve just to make them really dizzy…» [2, p.38].
In written speech, italics and other ways of changing the font are one of the typical ways to convey intonation as a certain emotional state. Emphasizing the word «hurt» indicates an attempt to convince that the action will not cause pain, in the sense that we used to put into this word, the reader can easily feel the contempt and neglect of the speaker in relation to another person. «He’s getting away! HE’S GETTING AWAY!» [2, p.28].
The capital font here indicates nothing more than a changing emotional state of the hero: growing panic, and the reader can imagine how the speaker’s voice rises, becomes more anxious. Along with graphic means of expression, the author uses here a syntactic means – repetition.
«YOU COULD DO WITH TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY’S BOOK!» [2, с. 34];
«They were starving him, Mum!» [2, p.36];
«What – the – devil – are – you – doing?!» [2, p.18];
The use of various punctuation marks is also a means of expressing emotions in writing. In the examples given, the exclamation mark informs the reader that the author is experiencing strong emotions, in the first case, the exclamation is combined with the capital font – a reproach is expressed based on feelings to the extreme.
Speaking about the morphological means of expressing emotionality in speech, then, first of all, we should name the suffixes that give a positive or negative color to the word. So, the affixes -ie, -let (girlie, birdie, kinglet) convey a positive emotional coloring, the suffixes -y, -ish + the nominal stem forms adjectives with a negative, and sometimes contemptuous connotation: «bookish, freaky».
«Very fishy,» said Fred finally. «Definitely dodgy», agreed George [2, p.29].
The lexical level is rightfully the richest in ways of expressing emotionality. Practically every day new words, neologisms are formed, which have a bright expressive coloring.
The stylistic richness of the lexical-semantic level is due not only to the colossal number of units included in it, but also to the diversity of their quality, as well as the complex, multi-tiered system of their stylistic organization. «It’ll be worse if you don’t. My Gran sent me one once, and I ignored it and» – he gulped – «it was horrible… horrible performance» [2, p.91]. Thus, the adjective horrible contains a negative connotational meaning, and when the word is repeated, it seems that the speaker not only doubts, but also regrets what is happening. Like vocabulary, phraseology contains the richest means of speech expressiveness, gives speech a special expression and a unique national flavor. The expressiveness of a language largely depends on its phraseology.
Many emotional words, and interjections in particular, express emotion in the most general form, without indicating its positive or negative character. Oh, for example, can express both joy and sadness, and many other emotions: «Oh, I’m so glad»; «Oh, I’m so sorry»; «Oh, how unexpected! » [2, p.91].
The grammatical means of expressing emotion include: the use of inappropriate tenses, the use of continuous tenses, modal verbs, degrees of comparison, emphatic do and oneself, inversion. «Dobby is always having to punish himself for something, sir» [2, p.16].
The use of the tenses of the continued group expresses the annoyance and displeasure of the speaker. «She might be fairer than Snape, but she was still extremely strict» [2, p.83]. The modal verb might in this sentence has a connotation of reproach.
In addition, the most common ways of conveying various emotions, often regrets, include sentences with wish. «One more sound and you’ll wish you’d never been born, boy! » [2, p.18].
The construction I wish somebody would in this case expresses anger, an acute desire of the speaker about the event.
«Muggles do know more than we give them credit for, don’t they?!», «Mostunfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not restwith me. I shall go and fetch the people who do have that happy power. You willwait here» [2, p.83].
The emotional state in these examples is enhanced by the emphatic use of do.
Interrogative constructions can be represented by the following example: «Can’t be much further, can it?» croaked Ron, hours later still, as the sunstarted to sink into their floor of cloud, staining it a deep pink» [2, p.75].
Summing up, we note that for effective communication in any language, it is important not only to know the features of expressing emotions in English, but also to understand the meaning, to be aware of the emotional state that they convey.
ЛІТЕРАТУРА
- Емоції: види та значення, прояви, механізм виникнення. URL: https://ru.osvita.ua/vnz/reports/biolog/26132/ (дата звернення: 25.03.2022).
- Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsberry, 1998 215 р.