The emotive component of Nikolay Kolyada speech portrait

The paper aims to define the role of the emotions in speech of a famous Russian dramaturge Nikolay Kolyada. The authors describe examples of emotive lexis and representations in the video interview. The scientific novelty of the research is the systematisation and interconnection of verbal and nonverbal components of emotion in Kolyada's speech. To overview, dramaturge's speech has a lot of emotive words and collocations that play an important role in formation of the speech portrait and help to define the entire image and the concept of a creative person.