Linguistic means of depicting personages’ emotional states in English fiction: a case study of John Fowles’s “The Collector” and “The Magus”

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify and systematize linguistic means of portraying characters’ emotional states in the postmodern novels “The Collector” and “The Magus” by John Fowles. In accordance with the aim of the paper, the following tasks are set: ˗ to outline theoretical foundations of emotion studies in various scholarly fields including the nature, functions, and classifications of emotional experience; ˗ to define linguistic means of the emotion actualization via the direct nomination of emotional states; ˗ to specify nonverbal markers of emotional states; ˗ to survey literary representation of emotions; ˗ to determine the basic patterns of metaphorical conceptualization of emotions; ˗ to reveal the verbal and nonverbal signals of characters’ emotions reflection in “The Collector” by John Fowles; ˗ to determine the ways of personages’ emotions actualization in “The Magus” by John Fowles.