GRAPHIC REALIZATION OF THE PHONETIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS IN D. H. LAWRENCE'S SHORT STORIES

Abstract

Introduction. Emotions are essential in D. H. Lawrence’s literary texts. He lived inthe period of industrialization and materialism, when emotions were in the state of stagnation.That is why his short stories make the readers feel real emotions and be the part of narrated events.Lawrence’s short stories are full of expressive means which evoke certain feelings in readers’minds and serve a very productive field for the investigations aimed at analyzing emotive spaceof textual world. Lawrence’s works such as novels, poetry, essays are always in the focus ofstudying in different facets: linguostylistic, phonological, pragmatic, semantic. As for the givenpaper it studies Lawrence’s short stories which haven’t been the subject of linguistic andphonological analysis yet. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the graphicrealization of the phonetic means of expressing emotions in D. H. Lawrence's short stories.Methods. The descriptive analysis of the graphic means which form the emotiveness in selectedsamplesfrom Lawrence’s short stories was applied. Results. Close investigation of graphic meansof expressing emotions in Lawrence’s short stories showed that for expressing different emotionsand feelings of the characters Lawrence often uses such graphic devices as exclamation mark,dash and full stop and italics, which in literary texts usually create an additional emotional levelof utterance. The paper also demonstrates how different graphic devices can affect the emotivemeaning of the utterance. Conclusion. Having examined the graphic means of expressing emotionsin Lawrence’s short stories, we can classify the author’s literary style as hyper-emotional one,as it is distinguished with different language means of expressing emotions in analyzed texts.