THE SYNONYMIC GROUP OF WORDS WHICH EXPRESS THE CONCEPT OF “ANGER” (RABBIA) IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is the study of lexical means which express the emotional concept of “anger” (“rabbia”) in Italian linguoculture. A componential analysis has been applied to the definitions of the members of the synonymic group of the word “rabbia”. As a result of analysis some distinctive semantic features have been revealed which allow us to distinguish the semantic fields of the lexemes that express the emotional concept of “anger” in the Italian language.