Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Emotional Dimension of the Epoch: an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Emotional Dimension of the Epoch: an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (1)
Authors: Raevskaya, Marina M.
Contact information: Raevskaya, Marina M.: Moscow Lomonosov State University 31/1 Lomonosovsky, Moscow, 119192, Russia;
Keywords: affective communication; linguistics of emotions; emotions in cyberspace; emotional dimension of society; genre of a comment; emotionally-marked vocabulary
Abstract: The article deals with affective communication in the digital space and aims to highlight the potential of linguistic research of emotions in the context of many branches of knowledge. The center of interest are the so-called emotional or expressive markers of the epoch by which the vector of a speaker’s mood marked by the social and cultural context in which the society lives can be “measured”. The communicative, semantic and graphic features of texts, reflecting their authors’ emotional state, are analyzed in the article on the basis of the comments posted on the newspaper “El País” web-page (2016) by the readers. The article contributes to the study of the comment as a genre of Internet-communication which is the most appropriate for expressing an individual’s spontaneous and immediate emotional state, the study having great potential for future research of the subject
Pages: 99-106
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/30763