EMOTIONAL AND EMOTIVE POTENTIALS OF THE SPEECH ACTSOF CO-REJOICING
The paper presents empathic speech acts of the sphere of co-rejoicing from the point of view of predominance of emotional or emotive component. The author differentiates verbal emotionality and emotivity both by content and form. The concept “emotional” content encompasses the meaning of naturalness, sincerity, spontaneity; the emotional utterances are often expanded and argumentative. “Emotivity” is specified by affectation, hypocrisy, intentionality and is expressed by short sentences, usually lacking arguments. The author came to the conclusion that formally emotive empathic utterances in verbal co-rejoicing are determined by the situation and thus can have emotional potential. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the fact that the author using speech-act analysis concretizes the use of emotional and emotive components in empathic utterances. The practical significance of the work is that the obtained results can be used in lectures on style, theory of speech acts, linguocultural studies, and psychology of speech behavior.