Linguistic and semiotic representation of pessimism in The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

This paper focuses on the indirect means of verbalising the phenomenon of pessimism in the texts of literary fairy tales from the point of view of linguosemiotics. The study aims to identify the linguistic and semiotic means that create the pessimistic discourse of Oscar Wilde's collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Pessimistic discourse is treated as a person-centred type of discourse, represented by a complex system of means that reveals the speaker's pessimistic worldview and is characterised by its aims, style, and tenor. The study employs semantic and lingo-semiotic analysis of the ontological phenomenon of pessimism in fictional texts, using content analysis to ensure the reliability and validity of the results. Furthermore, the four-stage methodological procedure used in this research allows us to define a general literary context of the analysed works, select the research material, determine the frequency characteristics of the symbols as lingo-semiotic means that create the pessimistic tonality and discourse of Oscar Wilde's collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales. The research identifies the symbols of nature (seasons, flowers), the material world (colours, everyday objects), distance and death (as an ontological category) as verbal triggers of the author's pessimism implemented in the narrative through the contextual markers of basic, adjacent and related qualitative features of pessimism reflecting its social, psychological and cognitive aspects. The study contributes to the development of linguistic semiotics, psycholinguistics and discourse studies by enriching the knowledge of idiostyles. The proposed methodology of the given research is considered promising within the framework of different genres.  Disclosure Statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. * Corresponding author: Alla Pavliuk, 0000-0002-6037-4819 [email protected]

Emotional Intelligence in the Context of Linguodidactics and Linguocultural Studies

In the article, for the first time in Eastern European linguodidactics, an original method of using students' emotional intelligence data and their personal linguoculture for a new structuring of didactic material in the study of foreign languages (on the example of Ukrainian as a foreign language) is offered.The authors aimed to make theoretical generalizations and conclusions about the main subject of the research, to determine the types of emotional-intellectual relation of students to a foreign language in the classes of the higher educational institutions and to model the general methodological scheme on the basis of sociological and functional-semantic data.The used methods can be clearly divided into theoretical, sociological and modeling, which made it possible to demonstrate a new approach to the thematic presentation of didactic material on the example of the concept HAPPY and determine the degree of flexibility of students' emotional intelligence in foreign language classes.First of all, the international significance of the article lies in the first attempt of the synthesis of the theory of emotional intelligence and linguoculturology (theory of concepts) in the optimization of the foreign language didactics; secondly, the authors, with the help of associative experiment and functional-field thematic structuring, offered a new model of presenting the lexical material of foreign language teaching for the first time.</p

Affective Interjections as Verbal Means of Expressing Pessimism in Modern English

Досліджено структурні та функціональні особливості емоційних вигуків негативної оцінки, які є афективами-ідентифікаторами песимістичної комунікативної поведінки мовця. Виявлено корпус вигуків, потенційна здатність яких оформлювати песимістичні висловлення підтверджується контекстуальними маркерами песимізму, які вказують на експлікацію його якісних ознак. Установлено, що однослівні непохідні та похідні вигуки містять у структурі своїх лексичних значень одну або декілька сем песимізму, які вказують на його базові, суміжні та супутні ознаки, що є передумовою, яка визначає здатність даного вигуку до вживання у песимістичних висловленнях. Виявлено, що вигуки-словосполучення, які демонструють здатність до оформлення песимістичних висловлень, є похідними конструкціями, які представлені як вільними, так і усталеними (фразеологічними) сполуками. Песимістичний потенціал досліджуваних афективів-ідентифікаторів визначається впливом контекстуальних маркерів песимізму на контекстуально обумовлені смисли, які створюють песимістичний контекст. Доведено, що емоційні вигуки негативної оцінки вказують на мовленнєву реалізацію ситуативної песимістичної акцентуації. The article highlights structural and functional features of emotional interjections of negative evaluation which are affective identifiers of pessimistic communicative behavior. We investigate the interjections, whose potential ability to complete pessimistic utterances is determined by the use of contextual markers of pessimism, which indicate the explication of its qualitative characteristics. It is found out that one-word underived interjections and one-word derived interjections have in the structure of their lexical meanings one or a few semes of pessimism pointing out its basic, adjoining and attendant features which is a prerequisite that determines the ability of the interjections to be used in pessimistic utterances. It is proved that phrasal interjections, which demonstrate the ability to complete pessimistic utterances, are derived constructions, represented both by free and stable (phraseological) units. The pessimistic potential of affective identifiers of pessimistic communicative behavior is determined by the influence of contextual markers of pessimism on the contextually dependent meanings which form pessimistic context. It is demonstrated that emotional interjections of negative evaluation identify speech realization of the situational pessimistic accentuation