Expression of surprise in modern English

The interpretation of human’s emotional states and feelings, as a special form of the reflection of reality, is generally adopted. There is a great number of the shades of these states. Unfortunately, language doesn’t have enough number of words to transmit all possible shades of these feelings. Exploration of emotional speech is an actual and insufficiently studied problem in contemporary linguistics. The great number of different opinions about including emotionality into the sphere of linguistic analysis, the absence of systemic description of its characteristics explain such situation.

INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….3
PART ONE. SURPRISE AS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EMOTION……………………………………………………………......…………...5
PART TWO. SURPRISE TOKENS…………………………....……………….……7
2.1. Surprise as a display of (sub)cultural and category memberships…...…..10
2.2. Surprise as a vehicle for other actions………………………………...….12
2.3. Surprise as an alternative to other actions……………………………......13
CONCLUSIONS..…………………………………………………………………...15
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