FRENCH LINGUOCULTURE AND METHODS OF LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION OF EMOTION “JOIE” (JOY)

Abstract: The article is devoted to the identification of ethnocultural methods of linguistic representation of the emotion “joy” in the French language and culture. Any linguistic unit can convey certain emotion in the appropriate context and communicative situation. The analysis of linguistic material is based on a cognitive and functional-communicative approach to its interpretation. A linguistic understanding of the functioning of systemic discourse means within a specific culture, in particular the French linguoculture, occurs in terms of the anthropocentric paradigm. An integral component of spiritual culture, emotion discourse, being universal, presents a certain specificity of verbalization in different languages. This happens due to the speaker’s inherent subjectivity of interpreting the reality, which is of interest for linguistics, in particular  for cognitive science and communication science. The hypothesis is put forward that the semantics of linguistic units with an institutional component reflects the attitude of any linguoculture to the fundamental concepts of being and thinking; the ways of emotional verbalization can be considered elements of the national linguistic self-identification. Research perspectives are in the development of new synergistic cognitive-communicative approaches to the study of linguistic units with an emotional component.   Keywords: language, culture, emotiveness, national worldview, French identity.