Emotions are extremely sophisticated and their linguistic representations are also quite characteristic. The detailed study of the lexical-semantic means of expressing emotions in a postmodern literary text is essential ...

The article presents, in a synthetic way, some observations of the author on the functioning of the prosodic elements in the discourse on Jewish issues which, very often, degenerates into anti-Semitic discourse. The corpus ...

This article discusses the analysis of argumentative persuasion and figurative language in a discourse related to lobbying. To be convincing to their interlocutors, lobbying uses linguistic techniques to serve their ...

The emotions’ manifestation in the onyms is not a frequent phenomenon. Although, due to the chrematonymy’s general richness, the main aim of this article is to verify how the emotions manifest themselves in the Italian ...

In this paper we analysed the Greek myths exclusively in terms of presence of the motifs of gold, both as the main narrative thread, and as an attribute of the selected characters. Firstly, we found the sources of inspiration ...

The story of Bluebeard belongs to the fairy tales written by Perrault, which in later times have seen almost countless travesties – in literature, film, opera and others. This article attempts to make a comparative analysis ...

The present paper focuses of the feeling of fear described in A Historical Narrative Of The Shipwreck And Captivity Of Mr. De Brisson (1789) written by a French colonial officer who – in 1785, on his way to Senegal – ...

Lazzo is a short scene of a comic nature that can be compared to a modern-day gag. Italian actors had various categories of such scenes in their repertoires (mimic-gestual, acrobatic, verbal or mixed). Such a ready-made ...

From the point of view of the ancient medicine, apprehension, which is a feeling of fear and uncertainty regarding the probable outcome or consequences of something, significantly tormented the soul rather than the human ...