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Master of Philology, Junior Research Fellow, Folklore Division, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
This article explores the lexical and stylistic markers of the emotion “joy” in Mongolian folklore texts collected by the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities during expeditions from 2006 to 2008. The author analyzes the frequency and usage of corresponding emotive words (emotonyms) and the communicative situations in which they occur. It is found that these markers are relatively rare, with positive emotions generally expressed less frequently than negative ones. They are typically found in fairy tales, poetic genres, and messages with an attitude of authenticity, often in “male” texts. Joy is often understood as a situational experience that merges with the understanding of happiness as a lasting state, as seen in fairy tale endings or texts of good wishes. Joy is also a convenient lexical and stylistic marker for translation, as the circumstances of its use and its combination with markers of other emotional states are quite similar in Mongolian and Russian cultural discourse.
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