Lexical Means of Expressing Emotions: Types of Emotional Lexical Units in the French language (Based on the Material of Modern French Youth Magazines)

Abstract

The paper deals with the notions of “vocabulary of emotions”, “emotional vocabulary”, “emotionality”, “emotivity”, “evaluativeness” and “expressiveness”. It highlights the criteria and functions of the emotional vocabulary in the text and gives the classification of lexical means of expressing emotions. The authors conducted the quantitative analysis of the selected lexical items according to their type. The authors conclude that stylistically highlighted vocabulary is the most common type of lexical means of expressing emotions in French. The results of this research are conducive to the development of the theory of lexicology and can be used when selecting lexical units to be included in the content of the course in French at schools and higher educational institutions.