Some semantic and etymological characteristics of English verbs describing sensual and emotional activity of a person

INTRODUCTION. The study discusses some semantic and etymological characteristics of English verbs describing the sensuous-emotional activity of a person. The way people interpret their emotions depends on the “lexical grid of coordinates” given to them by their native language. And in this vein, the linguistic picture of the world appears as knowledge fixed in the content of linguistic forms, as a kind of system of belonging to the world and a form of its categorization. The need to correlate the prototypical approach in categorization with the conceptualization of historical models [etymological].

RESEARCH METHODS. Within the framework of the development of this topic, the main research methods that made it possible to identify some semantic and etymological features of English verbs describing the sensual and emotional activity of a person are: the descriptive method, the method of component analysis, the method of formalization.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The actualization of the problems of language – consciousness – emotion in linguistics has affected the development of topics and concepts related to the emotional world of a person “as one of the microcosms”. And in this regard, it is interesting that the history of the origin of verbs of emotions and the periods of their emergence lift the veil on how speakers are accustomed to “conceptualize” emotional states. The study of the conceptual structure of the word (in the study – verbs of emotions) according to the etymological analysis can provide important data for further study of the conceptual sphere describing the sensual and emotional activity of a person.

CONCLUSION. When studying the emotional world of a person, his feelings, it is necessary to understand that each language imposes its own interpretive grid of coordinates. Studying the semantic space of the English language, in particular, the microcosm of sensual and emotional activity of a person, in the form presented at the present stage of language development, we obtain certain knowledge about this conceptual sphere of English speakers, objectified by the signs of the language and reflected in its semantic space.

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