Phraseological Representation of Emotions and Feelings in Spoken Discourse: Creative Boundaries and Pragmatic Efficiency

The paper elaborates an integrated methodology of studying the ways in which a speaker's emotional state can be represented with the help of phraseological means. The analysis of eight feature films has established that in spoken discourse the choice of phraseological units for conveying one's emotions and feelings depends on several main factors: their type, the conceptual foundation of their images, their emotional modus, their use in (non)conventional forms, communicative strategies of their modifications, and illocutionary shifts determining their pragmatic efficiency in interpersonal interaction.