Oleksandr Potebnya and Linguistics of Emotions

Abstract

The article focuses on the attempt to generalize the system of O. Potebnya’s views on the problem of linguistics of emotions; to prove that in a modern linguistics of emotions O. Potebnya’s postulates are taken into account and developed concerning the peculiarity of verbalization of feelings, emotions and will in a text (discourse); concerning the status of interjection as a grammatic marker of emotions; functioning of an emotional language picture.