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Conceptualization of the emotion terms: Structuring metaphoric processes within multi- layered representation of the syntactic and semantic analysis of corpus data.

This paper presents a study on the conceptualisation of four emotion words in Croatian: strah ‘fear’, ljutnja ‘anger’, ljubav ‘love’ and ponos ‘pride’ combining several complementary methods and theoretical approaches. The hypothesis is that subjective emotional categories construct their meaning via embodied processes of conceptualization that includes semantic and syntactic organization of the meaning in terms of schematic relations of ENTITIES, PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES. The large Croatian web corpus hrWac 1, 4 GW is used as the source for the analysis of the usage of the emotion words. The study examines the conceptual structure of the target nouns (ENTITY) by analysing syntactic structure and distribution of a) verbs (PROCESS) in constructions [V EMOTION] and [EMOTION V], and b) adjectives in constructions [ADJ EMOTION]. For each emotion word, and each construction, 50 most frequent verbs and adjectives are selected and labelled according to a) the metaphorical process they activate (Kövecses 2000), b) the hierarchical cognitive structure of constructions Perak 2014), as well as c) the features of appraisal process within the componential process model of emotion (Scherer 2003 ; Fontaine, Scherer and Soriano 2013). The structure and distribution of the constructions is represented as a complex directed network that enables the analysis of distinctive semantic features in that particular syntactic relation. The emotion words are coded in a position of target nodes when in thematic semantic roles (e.g. odagnati strah ‘to chase away fear’), and in a position of source nodes when in agentive semantic roles (strah zavladao ‘fear rules’). The quantitative results are interpreted in accordance with the usage-based model of cognitive linguistics as the measure of the conventionalization and cognitive entrenchment of the constructions (Langacker 2008). Fontaine, J. R. J., Scherer, K. R. and Soriano, C. (eds) (2013) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook. Oxford UP. Kövecses, Z. (2000) Metaphor and Emotion. Language, Culture, and Body in human feeling. New York: Cambridge. Langacker, R. (2008) Cognitive Grammar. An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. Perak, B. (2014) Conceptualization of the lexical concept «strah» 'fear' in Croatian: A syntactic and semantic analysis. Dissertation. University of Zagreb. Scherer, K.R. (2003) Introduction: Cognitive Components of Emotion. In: Davidson. R.J., Scherer, K., Goldsmith, H. (eds.) Handbook of Affective Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.

metaphor ; network theory ; emotions ; collostructions

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