Means of Expression of Emotions and Evaluation in Everyday Russian Speech

Diploma thesis "Means of Expression of Emotions and Evaluation in Everyday Russian Speech" is devoted to the study of the properties of emotional speech. The object of the study is oral Russian speech. The subject of the research is the means of expressing emotions in the speech of Russian speakers. The work includes 39 pages of text, 2 figures, 7 tables with data on the use of emotive vocabulary, 62 sources and 2 applications. The work consists of an introduction, three chapters, conclusion, list of references and appendices. The introduction substantiates the relevance of the chosen topic, describes the history of the study of emotions, examines the main works of the Volgograd school of emotionology and foreign researchers of emotional speech. The first chapter discusses the approaches to the study of emotions, the definition of the emotive, connotative and affective, conceptual metaphors and emotional suffix. The second chapter describes the design of the study presented in the thesis, describes two corpora used as a material for analysis, covers the process of collecting data for the corpus of narratives about a personal experience and contains the hypotheses. The third chapter presents tables compiled on the basis of corpora, analyzes the usage of emotives and diminutive suffixes in oral Russian speech, formulates conclusions about the means of expression of emotions and evaluation in everyday speech. The results of the study are summarized in the conclusion, a proof of the connection between culture and the evaluative component of emotional speech is given. Keywords: emotive, affective, connotative, emotions, corpus, oral speech