Linguistic units with the semantic feature “emotionality” from communicational and functional aspect in German language

This paper provides a description of the content structures of the meaningfully related linguistic units that express emotions in German and Macedonian. The term linguistic or lexical units that express emotions I refer to those words or group of words whose meaning contains an emotional component. These are words with strong emotionality, i.e. words whose emotionality does not depend on the context, the situation or their subjective use, but on their emotionality is an essential and integral part of their meaning. We analyze the linguistic units from the word class of verbs, nouns, adjectives, such as: Freude, Zufriedenheit, Glück, sich freuen, froh machen, traurig sein etc. Keywords: linguistic units, Psycholinguistics, emotionality, communicational and functional aspect