Psycholinguistic basics of verbal signs of emotions

The article deals with the psycho-linguistic mechanisms of the development of emotions. In psycholinguistic literature, various terms are used for emotions: leading or basic emotions, dominant emotions, key emotions, emotional tone, etc. Emotions vocabulary in different languages is not identical; there is no emotional experience that would be comprehensible for one nationality and not comprehensible for another. Typological structure of emotions vocabulary is not the same in different languages, it is country-specific. Vocabulary for expressing emotional meanings in different degree of emotional load has a terminological distinction: vocabulary of emotions and emotional vocabulary, a set of designations is called emotive vocabulary. The basis for a common model of global description of the entire variety of emotive vocabulary is the category of emotiveness. On a linguistic level emotions are transformed into emotiveness. A seme of emotiveness is the basis of a single model of describing the variety of emotive vocabulary. Emotive meanings coincide with the categories of basic emotions and appear in the content of emotive vocabulary. The author raises the problem of studying the content of the vocabulary used by children, which reflects the scope of emotions, its verbalization and logics of perception. To achieve effective communication and speech, children have to develop verbalization of their emotions enhanced by emotive vocabulary which is a verbal expression of emotions.