Representation of the concept REGRET in Emily Giffin's novel "Something Borrowed"

The aim of this work is to identify the content of the concept REGRET, as represented in the novel "Something Borrowed" by the contemporary American writer Emily Giffin, through an analysis of the functioning of linguistic units in the text that nominate this concept. The work examines the concepts of "morality," "emotion," and "regret," identifies the significance of the concept REGRET as a unit of the emotional picture of the world, and identifies and analyzes the linguistic means representing the content features of the concept. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that, for the first time, this concept is studied in the aspect of revealing the specifics of the author's understanding of the topic in the novel "Something Borrowed", as well as in identifying, on new material, the specifics of the studied concept. The findings indicate that the concept being analyzed, within the author's constructed situation, displays features relevant to her and undergoes 'deformation,' with new characteristics appearing in its content that are not established in the national consciousness of the target culture's speakers. In the structure of the concept REGRET, features are identified that allow us to say that regret is associated with a sense of guilt, with regret for what has been done, with a violation of friendship loyalty, with emotional tension, and with attempts to justify one's misconduct. The concept represented in the analyzed work carries the semantics of the feeling that love is able to save a person from remorse.