Being in anger. Who and how felt enraged in Mongolian folklore

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the lexical and stylistic markers of anger in Mongolian folklore, texts and to how frequent that emotional phenomenon is for the studied narratives. The object of the study is the lexical and stylistic markers of anger in Mongolian folklore narratives. The subject of the study are the words that denote the manifestations of anger in the characters of the folklore texts; who and in what situations utters them. There can be different meanings that are hidden behind the lexical and stylistic marker of anger in the narrative. The analysis of communicative situations may allow to make assumptions about the nature of the world picture of the actors in Mongolian folklore and to formulate a hypothesis about the reasons for the existence of an emotional state in one way or another.