GRAPHIC REALIZATION OF THE PHONETIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONS IN D. H. LAWRENCE'S SHORT STORIES

Abstract

Introduction. Emotions are essential in D. H. Lawrence’s literary texts. He lived in
the period of industrialization and materialism, when emotions were in the state of stagnation.
That is why his short stories make the readers feel real emotions and be the part of narrated events.
Lawrence’s short stories are full of expressive means which evoke certain feelings in readers’
minds and serve a very productive field for the investigations aimed at analyzing emotive space
of textual world. Lawrence’s works such as novels, poetry, essays are always in the focus of
studying in different facets: linguostylistic, phonological, pragmatic, semantic. As for the given
paper it studies Lawrence’s short stories which haven’t been the subject of linguistic and
phonological analysis yet. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the graphic
realization of the phonetic means of expressing emotions in D. H. Lawrence's short stories.
Methods. The descriptive analysis of the graphic means which form the emotiveness in selected
samplesfrom Lawrence’s short stories was applied. Results. Close investigation of graphic means
of expressing emotions in Lawrence’s short stories showed that for expressing different emotions
and feelings of the characters Lawrence often uses such graphic devices as exclamation mark,
dash and full stop and italics, which in literary texts usually create an additional emotional level
of utterance. The paper also demonstrates how different graphic devices can affect the emotive
meaning of the utterance. Conclusion. Having examined the graphic means of expressing emotions
in Lawrence’s short stories, we can classify the author’s literary style as hyper-emotional one,
as it is distinguished with different language means of expressing emotions in analyzed texts.