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Introduction. Recently, the study of the relationship 
between emotions and language has become increasingly 
relevant. It is impossible to build an adequate description of 
the language system without taking into account human 
emotions. In recent studies, scientists have made attempts to 
identify the cognitive foundations of the conceptualization of 
emotions and ways of expressing them by lexical means. 
Despite the existence of a significant number of works 
devoted to the objectification of emotional concepts in 
different languages, which are at the crossroads of the most 
important 
disciplinary 
areas 
of 
modern 
linguistics: 
linguoculturology, 
emotiology, 
linguoconceptology, 
psycholinguistics, axiological linguistics and addressed to the 
consideration of verbalized ideas about the inner world of a 
person, it should be noted that the study of conceptual 
structures that underlie linguistic representations that describe 
positive emotional states, remains little studied in English. 
Materials and methods. The material for the study 
was the lexicographic sources of the English language: 
explanatory dictionaries, thesaurus, synonymous dictionaries 
and electronic dictionaries. The illustrative material of the 
study is presented by examples selected by the continuous 
sampling method from the works of English and American 
authors of the 19th-20th centuries, from the electronic corpora 
British National Corpus (BNC), Brigham Young University 
British National Corpus (BYU-BNC), British English Web 
Corpus (ukWaC). ). 
Results and discussion. Emotions as one of the forms 
of reality reflection are currently at the center of attention of 
many areas of knowledge, one way or another in contact with 
emotional processes. Recently, scientists have been actively 
developing a holistic theory of emotions in psychology and 
linguistics based on the psychological and physiological 
manifestations of emotions and their linguistic expression. An 
analysis of a number of psychological studies devoted to the 
study of emotions allowed us to identify the most common 
features inherent in most emotional states; sign (positive, 
negative, ambivalent), intensity, expressiveness, acquisition / 
innateness, duration / short duration, variability / constancy, 
and also to establish that the emotion “admiration” is not 
among the basic (fundamental) emotions, respectively, it can 
manifest itself in certain combinations or complexes with 
other emotions. 
Thus, some psychologists define the emotion 
“admiration” as a fusion of such basic emotions as joy and 
surprise. Others consider admiration to be the highest degree 
of satisfaction, which emphasizes the positive nature of this 
emotional state. In general, the emotional state of 
“admiration” remains a practically unexplored phenomenon in 
psychology. Therefore, in our study, we will look for answers 
to many questions regarding this emotion, first of all, in 
lexical units that express the emotional state of “admiration”. 
Having become acquainted with various points of 
view of linguists on understanding the essence of a concept 
that conveys emotions and feelings, in this research we define 
this conceptual structure not only as a set of certain mental, 
cognitive elements, but also as a person's evaluative ideas 
about the concept itself, defined, associated with images in the 
human mind. Taking into account the fact that admiration is a 
combination (complex) of several emotional states, we 
consider it possible to model the concept “admiration” as a 
segmental concept, which is a basic sensory layer surrounded 
by several segments that are equal in terms of abstraction 
degree. 
Appeal to the consideration of the features of nouns 
for the study of the concept “Admiration” is due to the fact 
that the actualization of emotional states is carried out through 
the compatibility of an abstract name with various predicates,