Emotion thematization
Language and Emotion
The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not
interchangeable.
Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling,’ while emotional tends
to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling’.
while an emotional response is one that is itself full of passion. Yet, what
are the triggers to motivate moral emotions?
Practical assignment. Study an English fairy tale to search for emotive linguistic units that may motivate moral emotions and cultivate moral behaviour in readers.
Further reading
1. Bednarek, M. (2010). Emotion talk and emotional talk: approaches to language and emotion in Systemic Functional Linguistics and beyond.
2. Fiehler, R. (2002). How to do emotions with words: emotionality in conversations
/ Reinhard Fiehler // in Fussell, Susan R. (ed.): The Verbal
Communication of Emotions.Interdisciplinary Perspectives. - Mahwah, NJ/London:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 79-106.
3. Haidt, J. (2003). The moral emotions. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.(pp. 852-870).
4. Oatley, K. (1989). (Keith Oatley | University of Toronto | Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development).
The language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field. Cognition and Emotion 3(2), 81-123
5. Pinich, I. (2020). Qualitative emotion analysis in Modern linguistic studies
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