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The submitted article focuses on the issues of emotion linguistics and its application for the analysis of literary texts. The author examines, in connection with the Bühler’s organon model of natural language, some of the language means serving to express, name and develop emotions, where it is particularly the lexical level of the language which is paid attention to. A sample emotion linguistics analysis is illustrated by the example of Adalbert Stifter’s story “Der Waldgänger”. It becomes apparent that literary texts can bear emotional potential which is often activated by the means of context and general knowledge of the text recipient.