Linguocognitive mechanisms of generalized content objectivation and actualization of interpretative-modal components of emotional meaning

Abstract

The article seeks to describe basic linguocognitive mechanisms to verbalize emotional contexts. The author precisely analyzes cognitive basis of emotiogenic speech components belonging to concept-valence system of both the linguocultural community and a particular communicant, rather than the language system. Special focus is laid on differentiation of generalized emotional content as typical of and adequately interpreted by all members of language community and the interpretative-modal component introduced to general hierarchy of meaning and actualized through variable speech mechanisms. Objectivation and actualization are preconditioned by different foci of sense production: 1) an attempt of a more general presentation of producer’s emotional scope, 2) perlocution effect realization to its maximum extent, necessity to put the recipient in the same emotional state. The analysis of emotional explicators is conducted by means of a complex contextual and hermeneutic method presupposing a certain sequence of steps. With the reference to deep structures of textspace emotivization the author concludes that there is mutual influence of objectivized emotional content and the emotional scope of a particular linguoculture. The language means of objectivation and actualization, namely emotives, are divided into four groups: affectives, connotatives, conventionalisms and expressives, which reveal a relatively universal character. Variations in interpretative-modal components are provided by transformations in action schemes in speech mechanisms of emotional contexts verbalization: actualization, destereotypization and playing.

Keywords

• emotional state
• objectivization
• actualization
• objectivation
• re-objectivation
• hermeneutic-noematic analysis
• linguocognitive mechanisms