The article deals with the means of verbalization of emotions in the fiction by Stefan Zweig, the functions of lexical units verbalizing them. Metaphor is the main means of verbalizing the feelings and emotions in the works by the Austrian writer. Among the metaphors in Stefan Zweig’s works the most frequent ones are the metaphors of fire and the anthropomorphic metaphors.

The article deals with the concepts of “fear” and “guilt” related to the key concepts of the novel by German and Swiss writer Hermann Hesse “Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth”. Frequent use of nominants and explicants of these concepts is conditioned by the author’s communicative intention - to show the difficult path of human socialization in childhood and adolescence.

Ruthlessness is one of the key concepts of the novel of an Austrian writer Robert Musil “The Confusions of Young Torless”. The basic way of verbalization of this concept is expression. The means of symbols in the work of the Austrian writer are the following words: tierisch, roh, grausam, wild, Grausamkeit, brutal, viehisch, Rohheit, Gewalt, gewaltig, gewaltsam . The concept in its verbal form in the novel by R. Musil is often combined in a number of contexts with its expression.

Based on the novel “The Judgement” by an Austrian writer of the XX century Franz Kafka, the article reveals and describes with the key concepts. They are cruelty , accusation , sympathy and care . These concepts in the novel are not denoted by the corresponding lexemes but expressed by other linguistic devices. Frequent explication of the concepts is specific in the author’s individual style. The symbols characterizing the novel’s characters are determined; they are a wall, a closed window, a blanket, a backroom.

Based on the novel by an Austrian writer of the first half of the XX century Stefan Zweig “The Miracles of Life”,the article deals with the basic concepts - fear, love and despair. The associative, perception and figurative signs of these concepts are determined. The linguistic devices of the concepts “fear”, “love” and “despair” are found out.

The key concepts of the story by an Austrian writer Stefan Zweig “The Star above the Forest” are love, despair and loneliness. These concepts are verbalized in this story by expressing and more rarely by notion. The concepts “love”, “despair” and “loneliness” are implemented in the lexemes “Liebe, verzweifeln, einsam“ and their derivatives. In the concept sphere of the story a special role is given to a metaphor as the way of artistic explication of the concepts.

The basic means to denote the concept “fear” in the story by Stefan Zweig “Fear” are the following words: “die Angst“, “das Grauen“, “das Erschrecken“. In this story the anthropomorphic verbal metaphor serves as the main means to express the individual author’s concept “fear”. The perceptive figurative signs of this concept are “heart beats”, “heart pricks”, “body shiver”, “frozen knees and hands”, “speechless tongue”, “whirlwind”, “swirl”, “head down”, “grip”, “hammer strikes”, “nerves quivering as strings”, “flame”.

There is proved that one of the basic emotional concepts in the novel “The Confusions of Young Torless” by an Austrian writer of the XX century Robert Musil is shame, and the main method of its verbalization is designation. There is considered the lexeme “Scham” and its derivatives “sich schämen”, “Beschämung” that are the core in the system of designation of this notion. There is shown that the associative field of the concept “shame” in the novel includes the words “red”, “to redden”, “blushing”, “darkness”, “fear”, “naked”, “uneasy”, “concealed”.

Based on the German and Russian fiction there is given the linguocultural characterization of the concepts of emotions expressed by such types of biomorphic metaphor as anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and floristic ones. There is stated that the anthropomorphic metaphor is the most productive. A high frequency usage index of the verb-like anthropomorphic and zoomorphic metaphors has been revealed.

There is discussed the issue of value and perceptive and figurative characteristics of the emotional concept loneliness in the language world picture. There is reveled the axiological status of the given concept in the collective and individual world pictures.

There is discussed the issue of the authors interpretation of a socially important phenomena for a Swiss German writer Hermann Hesse - spirit and soul, which appear as moral instruments regulating the behaviour of a reflecting personality. The interpretative analysis of the story by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha reveals the figurative and value components of the concepts spirit and soul in the structured axiological world picture of the writer.

Based on the materials of Russian and German fiction texts there is discussed the issue of combinatory power of nominations of emotions and colourlexemes. There are revealed their compatible possibilities and ethnic cultural specificity in the Russian and German languages.

Based on the materials from dictionary entries and associative dictionary there is regarded the description of the concept joy in Russian linguistic culture. There are revealed the associative, figurative and value characteristics of this concept, as well as its ethnic cultural specificity in Russian linguistic culture.