Emotions have a huge impact on human life. One of the fundamental factors in managing human behavior is emotion. The article is devoted to a brief review of the expression of emotion in the Tatar language. The problem of studying the linguistic picture of the world is closely connected with the problem of conceptual picture of the world that displays the specifics of man and his existence, his relationship with the world, the conditions of his existence. Language picture of the world explicits different world-view and shows the General picture of the world. Human activity, which includes the symbolic, i.e. cultural, universe as an integral part, is both universal and national-specific. These properties determine both the originality of the language picture of the world and its universality. On the basis of modern trends, new directions in linguistics are being formed taking the role of the emotions into consideration: sociolinguistics aspect of emotions, etc., The cognitive aspect of emotions, the psycholinguistic aspect of emotions, and the linguostylistic aspect of emotions. The study presents the authors’ classification of emotionally rich language units. In the article, the authors also offer their vision of the future prospects of studying the topic.