Problems of studying informal interview in the aspect of emotional content

The work analyzes the main problems of pragmatic and cognitive study of emotional content within the framework of an informal interview. It uncovers the causes of the problematic position of emotions in modern linguistic studies dedicated to spontaneour dialogue communication, determines the prospects of further study of the emotional content of dialogue utterances with the consideration of the multi-level way of expressing this content, the level of the intensity of its expression and the communicative practices of the interlocutors. The results of the study have proven the validity of one of the primary principles of emotiology, which requires the unity of the rational and the abstract in the examination of the semantic plan of language and speech units. The article determines that the implementation of this principle in different types of emotives has its peculiarities, the adequate view of which is directly connected to the clear functional-semantic division of "roles" of the components of the pragmatic (expressive) structure of a word.