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Current Emotion Research in English Linguistics: Words for Emotions in the History of English
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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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Metadata
- 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
- OpenAlex
- W2365494375
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 69.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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