A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF NON-VERBAL COMPONENTS IN EMOTIONAL AND EMOTIVE TYPES OF DISCOURSE (BASED ON CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PROSE

Abstract

The article focuses on the pragmatic features of non-verbal components of communication within the framework of emotional and emotive discourse. It outlines the theoretical foundations of emotional and emotive communication, with particular emphasis on pragma-linguistic approaches, and identifies the principal features that enable a clear distinction between emotional expression and the speaker’s emotive intention.Typical non-verbal means accompanying verbal utterances and enhancing their pragmatic potential are analyzed. The study emphasizes that non-verbal behavior may be either spontaneous or controlled and pragmatically motivated. Drawing on modern communicative linguistics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics, the research identifies the role of non-verbal cues in achieving communicative goals, reinforcing or transforming verbal content, and shaping the emotional impact on the recipient. The material under analysis includes fragments of English-language discourse that reflect speakers’ communicative behavior under emotional tension or while expressing affective states. As a result of the study, it has been found that non-verbal components in emotionally and emotively marked discourse function not only as auxiliary tools but as independent communicative codes. They perform emphatic, modificational, and regulative functions and significantly influence the interpretation of verbal messages. It has also been revealed that in some cases, non-verbal signals may contradict verbal ones, creating an effect of pragmatic polysemy. The study confirms that effective interpretation of emotional and emotive discourse is impossible without considering the non-verbal level of communication as an integral part of a unified pragmatic system.