*LANGUAGE AND EMOTIONS: EMOTIONAL LEXICON IN A LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE WORKS OF A. KEKILBAYEV, CH. AITMATOV)

Abstract

The study focuses on exploring the ways emotional lexicon is conveyed in literary works. Grammatical, particularly syntactic, semantics play a crucial role in revealing the content of a work. Emotions are one of the most powerful manifestations of the human soul. Language serves not only as a means of communication but also performs evaluative and descriptive functions, expressing various moods and experiences of a person. A.Kekilbayev and Ch.Aitmatov are writers who skillfully use linguistic tools to express, depict, and describe emotions, to reveal the character's image, and convey their inner “self” to the reader as it is. The aim of the study is to examine the lexical and grammatical means of expressing the category of emotionality based on the literary works of A.Kekilbayev and Ch.Aitmatov. The research explores the ways emotions are conveyed in language, the linguistic means of expressing psychological states in a literary text, and conducts a linguistic analysis of the emotional states of characters in the works. An analysis of theoretical concepts in both domestic and foreign linguistics concerning the study of emotionality has shown that any emotion carries an evaluative character. Based on the analysis of A.Kekilbayev's “Kui” and Ch. Aitmatov's “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years”, linguistic units that denote such emotional states as “fear” and “joy” were identified, revealing that the authors use phraseological expressions to more accurately convey the emotional states of their characters.