The body of negative emotions is rather diverse and significantly exceeds both positive and neutral ones. The popularity of studying emotive characteristics of words and texts does not decrease over the years. The number of works affecting the problems of emotion and emotionality of a word has increased significantly. This article is also devoted to the concepts of emotions, particularly negative ones. Negative emotional states require certain efforts to resist them. Therefore, it is easier for a person to understand the roots of negative emotions and develop the strategies aimed at getting rid of unpleasant feelings by actualizing and verbalizing negative states. Explication of negative emotions can be caused by various factors. This research paper deals with the factors causing manifestation of negative emotions at the process of speech communication. The empirical data used in the article is presented by speech situations extracted from classical literature in the Russian and English languages.