INVOLVEMENT WITH LANGUAGE AND IN LANGUAGE

In section 1, the ways in which people are involved with their own lan guage are dealt with. The Prague School functional concept of 'experie ncing one's language' (being a parallel to 'involvement') is presented , and the following points discussed: different attitudes of users tow ard language, characteristics features of their involvement with the t ext processes of speaking-writing and listening-reading, and the range of different experimental modes implied in the users' involvement. Se ction 2 is devoted to emotion as the most typical and natural manifest ation of people's involvement in language. Emotion is treated as a spe cific dimension of the human mind and experience; its vast field is su rveyed and contrasted with the dimension of cognition. The two dimensi ons (or, rather, aspects) are interwoven and mutually conditioned, bot h in our life and in linguistic expression. Further, the ways emotion enters discourse, and various types and means of its manifestation in communication are examined. Moreover, different functional positions o f emotion in communication are discussed, and also a brief comparison of the emotional content of speech and music is sketched.