Linguocultural Features of Emotional Communication Between Parents and Children in English Novels

This article examines the linguocultural features of emotional communication between parents and children in English novels. The analysis is based on George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters. These novels present family life as a cultural space where affection, silence, restraint, anxiety and misunderstanding shape the child’s emotional world. The study focuses on the way feelings are expressed through short emotional phrases, familiar forms of address, blessings, silence, gestures and indirect care. The findings reveal that family affection in English novels is often restrained rather than openly declared. Love may appear through a father’s softened voice, a domestic word, a short blessing or an attempt to protect the child from emotional pain. Such forms of communication reflect cultural views about family duty, daughterhood, emotional self-control and moral sensitivity.