LEXICAL MEANS OF CONVEYING THE STATE OF FEAR IN CHARACTER’S BEHAVIOUR IN TEXTS OF THE RUSSIAN- AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE MODERN PROSE
The article examines the features of conveying the emotion of fear in a character’s behaviour in a fiction text of modern prose in the German and Russian languages. Non-verbal ways of expressing emotions give a reader the idea of the emotional state of a character’s fear in a fiction text most fully. The paper analyses texts that provide a character’s non-verbal speech behaviour filled with fear. The author reveals the lexical means of conveying a character’s emotional state. The means of conveying the emotion of fear used in a writer’s and in a character’s speech in a fiction text are analysed.