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The article deals with the main problems of correlation of the verbal and non-verbal codes from the semiotic point of view. The author differentiates several groups of the non-verbal components according to the relationship of their content and form and argues the priority of the verbal or non-verbal codes in the process of expression of the inner states. Special attention is paid to investigation of the lexemes and idioms which denote a non-verbal manifestation of such basic emotions as joy, sorrow, fear, anger, astonishment, etc., in the Russian, Bulgarian, Polish and Czech languages.