Smashnyuk O. Emotions Markers in Spontaneous Speech (on the basis of the British National Corpus).

The thesis contains detailed analysis of language means used to express various emotions, to convey and reveal emotional state of the speaker in authentic spontaneous communication in Modern English discourse. Emotions make an indispensable part of human psyche and human behavior. Naturally, they become an important component of spontaneous communication. The analysis was carried out on the basis of the British National Corpus (BNC), namely, spontaneous conversations. The BNC material covers various and numerous social and generic uses of Modern English and contains samples of spontaneous speech of representatives of different age groups, of different education level, of different ethnic background that makes it possible to get objective data about present-day spontaneous communication. Modern Information and Communication Technologies, lately digital technologies contribute to linguistic research of spontaneous speech, simplifying recording, accumulation and processing of the data. Nowadays Corpus Linguistics both extends methods of modern linguistic research and provides material to carry out other types of analysis. Representative samples within BNC give an opportunity to apply discourse analysis, conversation analysis, theory of speech acts, pragmatics, communication linguistics to authentic spontaneous speech not imagined, edited, imitated as it was done before. Chapter 1 reveals the correlation of the terms emotions, emotivity and expressiveness which are closely connected with spontaneous communication, different views on these phenomena in Linguistics. It also tackles wide range of emotions which is summarized in the table in the addendum. Extralinguistic factors which make impact on emotional spontaneous speech, namely, gender, age, social and cultural background of the interlocutors are considered in detail on the BNC material.