Determining the evaluative dominance of a mixed emotion

The article deals with the linguistic categorization of mixed emotions, by which it is proposed to understand such cases of verbalizing emotional experience, when two or more nominations of mono-, poly- and ambiocentric emotional states/experiences are combined into a single linear whole. Mixed emotions are considered as a new subject of emotive linguistics research, since the linguistic categorization of mixed emotions differs in its formal and substantive features from the established paradigm of emotivity and means of its explication in modern linguistics. The problem of mixed emotions has not become an object of independent research in linguistics or psychology. However, the position of dual-ity and ambivalence of any emotion is basic in psychology. In literary studies, attention is also paid to the problem of explication of mixed feelings / emotions, but a separate analysis of the structural, compositional, functional, etc. fea-tures of mixed emotions is not carried out. It should also be pointed out that the terminological approach to the problem of mixed emotions and their linguistic embodiment is difficult due to the usual and intuitively clear na-ture of the definition itself. The aspect of the mixed emotion dominant analysis is based on the Pollyanna principle, which explains the reason for the asymmetry of negative and positive evaluation in language and speech. The author formulates the assumption that the situational dominant of a mixed emotion, despite its summative nature, is the postpositive element. The prepositive element of a mixed emotion corresponds to the position of the theme, and the postpositive element corresponds to the rheme; at the cognitive level, the mixed emotion combines its own emotional and a rational evaluation of a certain event, action, or behavior. The example of the translation of text fragments con-taining linguistic expression of mixed emotions confirms the thesis that mixed emotions belong to the space of indefi-nite emotivity, when only the evaluation remains unchanged during translation, and the elements constituting the mixed emotion vary.