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Current Emotion Research in English Linguistics: Words for Emotions in the History of English

Tissari, Heli·2017·Emotion Review
DOI 10.1177/1754073916632064
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The aim of this article is to give a general idea of how meanings of single emotion words, and configurations between words, change historically, reflecting changes in people’s understanding of emotions. The article provides a selective overview of linguistic research on the histories of a number of English words for emotions. It focuses on changes in the words emotion and mood as well as analyzing terms for the specific emotions of anger, fear, happiness, joy, love, pride, respect, and sorrow. This article also suggests that it is possible to use linguistic data in order to recover some “psychological” information about emotions, such as information on people’s responses to them.

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Authors
Tissari, H.
Affiliations
University of Eastern Finland (FI)
Corresponding author
Tissari, Heli
ORCID
Tissari, Heli
Venue
Emotion Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2016-07-08
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
86-94
ISSN
  • 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
  • 1754-0747
DOI
10.1177/1754073916632064
OpenAlex
W2365494375
Cited by
26
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0
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 1
FWCI
69.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › linguistics and terminology studies
Keywords
emotional words, history of English, word meaning, semantic change, emotion concepts, mood, anger, fear, happiness, joy, love, pride, respect, sadness

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