Emotionality and emotiveness in expressing empathy and empathy’s potential in the speech sphere of rejoicing

Аннотация

The paper presents emphatic rejoicing from the point of view of predominance of emotional or emotive component. The author describes difference between emotionality and emotivity in expressing empathy. The term “emotional” content encompasses the idea of authenticity, spontaneity, and naturalness; the emotional statements are frequently elaborative and contentious. Affectation, hypocrisy, intentionality, and brief statements that typically lack argumentation are characteristics of “emotivity”. The author concluded that verbal co-rejoicing can have emotional potential when formally emotive empathic remarks are determined by the situation. Key words: empathy, emotionality, emotivity, the sphere of co-rejoicing, empathic utterances, positivity, negativity