LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Emicingumas; Emocingumas; Funkcinė stilistika; Stiliaus figūra; Stiliaus figūros; Stilistinė ypatybė; Stilistinės ypatybės; Tinklaraštis; Tinklaraščiai; Emotionality; Functional stylistics; Style figures; Stylistic features; Stylistic figure; Weblog; Weblogs.
ENOne of the reasons for writing the most popular variety of contemporary diaries - weblogs - is a possibility to express emotions, or the "psychotherapeutical" function of writing. In order to identify the essential functional stylistic features of a newly formed variety of language, the article analyses the linguistic expression means of emotions. In addition to directly speaking about their state, the writers of personal blogs express emotions by different means and methods of textual actualization. Such cases are the object of this research. Since the science of psychology defines the term "emotions" in a variety of ways and indicates their different scope, the research is based on the views of K. Oatley and F. Johnson-Laird - the representatives of the communicative theory of emotions, who claim that it is significant to distinguish between the "basic emotions", such as "happiness, sadness, anger and fear". To express all the basic emotions in the weblogs, the graphical means (emoticons, inserted images, uppercase, written character repetition) are supplemented by the use of lexical means (interjections, foreign words, connotative lexicon) as well as unusual patterns of linguistic means - semantic and syntactic stylistic figures. [From the publication]