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Various psycholinguistic studies claim that the language is emotive and there is not a single tongue that would contain an emotionally neutral lexicon. The immediate issue connected to it is whether the emotive meaning of a word can render a concept or a notion. Having determined that the emotive components of a word can render concepts, we will proceed with the study of a word emotive meaning. According to Professor V. Shakhovsky we distinguish four types of word emotive semantics: the conceptual/notional meaning, the denotative one, the emotive meaning proper which refers to the comparison of a concrete emotive word with a concrete social emotion expressed by the subject and the last type of meaning is the functional semantic one. It is found in typical social situations recognized by the individual and associated with an emotive word used to denote it. At the same time V. Shakhovsky identifies words with different types of emotive meaning status. They are: words with a denotative emotive meaning status (affective words), those with an optional or additional emotive meaning status (the connotatives), and words with a potential emotive meaning status. In the given paper we analyze the semantics of affective words associated with certain social situations used in “Memories from my Boyhood”, Stories and Tales by Ion Creangă in Romanian, English and Russian., {"references":["1.\tBENDAREK, Monica (2008), Emotion Talk across Corpora. Sydney: Sydney [online] https://www.academia.edu/579143/_2008_Emotion_Talk_Across_Corpora_Book_?email_wor k_card=reading-histor]","2.\tLIFARI, Viorica (2020), Conceptul afectivității în limbile engleză, română și rusă: Monografie. Chișinău: CEP USM","3.\tPAVLENCO, Aneta (2008), Emotion and Emotion-laden Words in the Bilingual Lexicon. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11 (2), C 2008, Cambridge University Press, p. 147–164","4.\tШАХОВСКИЙ, Виктор (2008), Лингвистическая теория эмоций : Монография. Москва: Гнозис","5.\tCREANGĂ, Ion (2010), Amintiri din copilărie, Воспоминания детства. Chișinău: Editura Continental Group","6. CREANGĂ, Ion (1978) The Memories of My Boyhood, Stories and Tales. \"Minerva\" Publishing House: Bucharest. Translated by Ana Cartianu and R.C. Johnston."]}

“Honour” as a human value stands at the core of the human self. It becomes important for a person only in social interaction with the others. If there is no social communication there is no need for social feelings that help the human self identify its value among the others. “Honour” is not an emotion, it is an appreciation of somebody by an authority, or a person who is honourable, still the feeling of honour may be connected to experiencing different emotions. Various studies on emotion concepts emphasize their cultural and social dependence. On the one hand emotions as feelings characteristic to humans may appear as personal manifestations but on the other hand the individual habituates in a society and his/her mental models associated with a certain emotion concept is dictated by the societal norms and cultural behavior manifested both linguistically and non-linguistically. The necessity to study the specific ways to express concepts in various types of societies, cultures and languages appeared together with globalization and the phenomenon of inter-cultural communication. As stated above the language promotes the cultural important values, many of them including such social emotions as “shame”, “guilt” or “honour”. The given study concentrates on clarifying the issue of “honour” and its association with various mental models in English and Romanian., {"references":["1.\tDEWAELE, John, (2015), Culture and Emotional Language. In: The Routlege Handbook of Language and Culture. Oxford : Routlege, pp. 357-370.","2.\tLIFARI, Viorica, (2019), The Social Concept of Shame in English and Romanian based on Quotations. In : Études Interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines. Revue officielle internationale du Collège doctoral francophone régional d'Europe centrale et orientale en Sciences humaines (CODFREURCOR) Numéro 6, pp. 264-277.","3.\tRODRIGUES, Mosquera, P. M., (2022), Social Image as a Central Concept in the Social Sciences. In: European Review of Social Psychology. Volume 26 Online journal. http//www.tandfonline.com/101pers20s","4.\tSHIRAEV, E.B., LEVY, David, (2010), Cross-Cultural Psychology. Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications. Allyn & Bacon : Boston, 384 p.","5.\tTANGNEY, J., FISCHER, K., (1995), Self-Conscious Emotions. The Psychology of Shame, Guilt and Embarrassment, and Pride. New York : The Guilford Press, 542 p.","6.\tCOLLINS COBUILD ENGLISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARY, (1991) London and Glasgow.","7.\tCUCEU, I., FLOREA, V., TALOȘ, I., (2007), Dicționarul Proverbelor românești. 7777 texte din Dicționarul tezaur al paremiologiei românești. București, Chișinău: Litera internațional.","8.\tHULBAN, Horia, (2006), Dicționar de sinonime comentate ale limbii engleze. Iași: Ediția Universității \"Alexandru Ioan Cuza\".","9.\thttps://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html [consultat la 18.04.2022].","10.\thttps://dexonline.ro/definitie/cinste [consultat la 18.04.2022].","11. https://proverbicals.com/honor [consultat la 25.04.2022]."]}