Human Behavior Verbalization in Literature

摘要

The article is focused on the ways of human behavior verbalization. The literary text, which is the author's interpretation of the characters' conduct, throws light on the socio-psychological nature of human behavior. The author conveys his verbal assessment and description of the characters' actions in his work at various language levels. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that the verbalization of human behavior in a literary text is considered at various linguistic levels, namely, lexical, syntactic and phraseological. O. Wilde's novel raises moral and ethical problems. According to the main topic, psychological, moral, social and aesthetic behavior is highlighted in the analysis of the means verbalizing human behavior. On the whole, the verbalization of behavior in the English language reflects its main characteristics and forms a separate fragment of the linguistic world image.