The Category of Emotivity as a Linguistic Phenomenon: Syntactic Means of Conveying Emotional States

Abstract

The article considers the category of emotionality as a linguistic phenomenon and analyzes syntactic means of emotion transmission. Emotional syntax is contrasted with logical syntax as the syntax of expressing feelings and the syntax of expressing thoughts. While logical syntax is characterized by normativity, emotional neutrality, grammaticality, and stability, emotive syntax, by contrast, activates figurative thinking and imagination. The main function of emotive syntax is to mix the sensory sphere of the psyche with cognitive and communicative processes. The purpose of the study is to identify the role of emotive syntax in cognitive and communicative processes, to distinguish it from logical syntax, and to describe the features of emotive syntactic structures in the Kazakh language. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to characterize the
main categories of emotional syntax and their communicative function; to analyze the structural and functional features of syntactic means of transformation (isolation, transposition, parcellation and other s); to study the implementation of emotive sentences in literary texts and colloquial speech; to systematize the phenomena of emotive syntax in Kazakh linguistics and their cognitive justification. The analysis focuses on such syntactic transformations as isolation, transposition, parcellation, as well as dislocation, inversion, interpolation, reprise, reduction, compression, and reconstruction as means of forming emotive structures. Special attention is given to the functional and pragmatic aspects of these constructions. The results of the study demonstrate the widespread use of emotive-syntactic means in the Kazakh language and their important role in conveying
emotions and communicative expressiveness. The research contributes to the advancement of both theoretical and applied aspects of studying linguistic emotionality, reveals the cognitive and pragmatic characteristics of emotive structures, and suggests ways to enhance the effectiveness of emotional expression in language. It is noted that the systematization of emotive syntactic units in Kazakh linguistics remains incomplete, and further research in this area will enrich the methodology of syntactic structure analysis and develop the theoretical foundation of Kazakh linguistics.