PECULIARITIES OF PAIN VERBALIZATION IN INTERNET MESSAGES IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article presents an attempt to describe the language means used to convey pain from the first and the third person singular. On the basis of the Internet health forum messages the peculiarities of the structure and the language of pain description were analyzed and the differences in the verbalization of pain by the person experiencing it and the person describing the pain of another person were traced. Verbalizing pain from the third person singular, the author feels uncomfortable and tries to change the perspective and either to describe somebody's pain as the pain he would feel in the same situation (I know this pain / I have experienced it) or to abstract from somebody's pain and report it, referring to the words of the person in pain (I retell the words of another person) or to describe somebody's pain referring to his own perception (I see / observe what another person feels). Therefore all the verbs used to express pain were divided into three groups.