Specificity of Conveying Emotions Using Non-verbal Means and Their Descriptions in a Literary Text (a Case Study of the French Language Materials)

This paper describes a study of non-verbal communication components on the examples from modern French literature. In the fictional world of the text using gestures (facial expression) the characters express their attitude (and emotions) to someone or something. Non-verbal communication components are displayed in the text by means of verbal descriptions. The study is dedicated to the problem of the attitude rating rendering by the descriptions of gestures. The appearance of two evaluations simultaneously is investigated: one evaluation is expressed by the character (the internal space) and the other one is expressed by the narrator (the author's representative in the external space of the text). Taking this fact into account will contribute to a more precise definition of the role of the character in the creation of his image and the role of the author in it.