LITERARISCHE EMOTIONEN: DAS MOTIV DER KINDERLOSEN EHE UND SEINE EMOTIONALEN AUSWIRKUNGEN

The submitted paper deals with some emotional-linguistic aspects of verbal expression of emotions in literary texts. On the example of the novel Der Waldgänger by Adalbert Stifter it analyses emotional implications of the predominant theme of a childless marriage. Primarily focusing the lexical and semantic dimension of language it describes the possibilities of verbal expression of emotional constellations at the individual language levels. Literary texts appear to be a very convenient means of verbal expression of emotions. While interpreting both explicitly and implicitly expressed emotions, the communication situation and contextual aspects should be taken into consideration.