Abstract:
The article analyses the proposals that describe and express the emotion of fear in Russian language. The verbal model of sentences with lexemes is considered: to be afraid, to be afraid, to panic, to be frightened, to be horrified. The material is selected from Russian fiction. We compare the language constructions that are used in the work of serious fiction (L. Ulitskaya Kazus Kukotsky) and in the popular popular literature (P. Dashkova Blood of the Unborn).