Emotional concepts in the collection of T. Moore’s works “Irish Melodies” (based on Volumes 1–3)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of emotional concepts based on the themes of sentimentality in the literary works by the Irish poet T. Moore. The practical study of emotional concepts based on the linguistic material of a particular language represents an important component of linguistic knowledge overall, providing an opportunity to consider different spheres of the emotional world of a person at a deeper level. Linguocultural analysis of emotional concepts allows us to classify some distinctive components of associative series, as well as the features of the use of concepts in oral and written speech. The research of the emotional concepts in poetry gives the possibility to reveal some linguocultural peculiarities of concepts, conditioned by the author’s individual and cultural properties of the analysed works. In the present study, the analysis of emotional concepts is performed in the linguistic and cognitive paradigm and implies the identification of specific semantic and syntactic valence of emotion nominants in the collection of poems “Irish Melodies” by T. Moore.