CATEGORIZATION OF THE CONCEPT OF JOY IN I. A. BUNIN’S SHORT STORIES: LINGVOCOGNITIVE ASPECT (CORPUS-BASED COMPUTER ANALYSIS)

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of the categorization of the emotion of joy in the fiction of I. A. Bunin. To identify in selected Bunin’s artworks the words, semantically related to this emotion, we used computer analytical tools based on the resources of the Laboratory of Computer Lexicology and Lexicography of the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. To obtain a concordance for the considered Bunin’s texts, a list of words-emotions that convey the meaning of 'joy' was identified according to the classification of emotive vocabulary proposed by L. G. Babenko. On the basis of this sample the frequencies of the words that transmit the values of these tokens in the contexts was obtained. Relying on the results of computer analysis, we established which categories the author uses to convey the emotion of joy; also some cognitive models of the concept of joy in the analyzed Bunin’s stories were constructed. The author of this article came to the following conclusions: 1) in the analyzed Bunin stories the concept JOY is transmitted not only through direct nomination, but also with the help of connotative values of derived units that are "hidden" behind a certain linguistic form; 2) for a bearer of culture, different from Russian, it is very difficult to understand and interpret the emotions that are transmitted in Russian literary texts. In this case, the computer analysis of linguistic data can provide a bearer of a different culture with scientific principles that will be helpful when analyzing and understanding the semantics of words conveying emotions; 3) the obtained results are relevant for linguocognitive, linguistic, and textual studies.