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Structural comparison of the linguistic networks of emotion conceptualization

This paper presents a comparative study on the structure of the conceptualisation of 10 emotion words in English and Croatian: fear/strah, anger/ ljutnja, disgust/gađenje, guilt/krivnja, joy/radost, love/ ljubav, pride/ ponos, sadness/tuga, shame/sram and surprise/iznenađenje, combining complementary theoretical and methodological approaches from Cognitive linguistics (Langacker 2008), Componential emotional theories (Scherer 2003, Fontaine et al. 2013) and quantitative Corpus analysis, graph th eory and network visualization. The starting hypothesis is that emotional categories, due to its subjective ontological status, construct their meaning via embodied processes of conceptualization that essentially facilitates recreation of the comparable affective experience in the intersubjective communication. This essentialy means thatThe affective states are categorized in terms of cognitive schematic relations of ENTITIES (N), PROPERTIES (ADJ/ADV) and PROCESSES (V) that construct their semantic function organized in the syntactic constructions. The goal of the study is to show the conceptualization structures of the emotional categories in the linguistic constructions. Research data is based on the large contemporary corpuses of English (enTenTen 11, 1 GW) and Croatian (hrWac 1, 4 GW) for the purpose of robust cultural generalization. The study examines the conceptual structure of the target emotions conceptualized as ENTITEIS and coded as nouns (N) by analysing syntactic structure and distribution with a) existential verbs [N+V], b) nonprocessual equation constructions [N+V(BE) +N/ADJ] c) spatial relations with emotion coded as figure [N+PREP] and ground [PREP+N], and thematic processual constructions [V N]. It is argued that these constructions form a hierarchical cognitive structure of conceptualization (Perak 2014). For each emotion word, and each construction, 50 most frequent and statistically relevant collocations are selected and labelled according to a) the metaphorical process and cultural model they activate (Kövecses 2000, Sarifian 2011). The structure and distribution of the constructions is represented in an emergent hierarchical structure as a complex directed network that enables qualitative and quantitative analysis of the distinctive semantic features in that particular syntactic relation. Each network layer is represented in two models of visualization, each with its distinctive function for interpretation of the usage of cognitive models and cross-cultural comparison.The emotion words are coded as target nodes when in thematic semantic roles (e.g. odagnati strahPATIENT / to chase away fearPATIENT), and in a position of source nodes when in agentive semantic roles (strahAGENT zavladao / fear rulesAGENT). It is argued that the qualitative results, represented in a multi- layered network of superimposed layers, express the structure of the conceptual knowledge of the emotion categories and the function within dynamic appraisal process. The quantitative res ults of the analysis is interpreted in accordance with the usage-based model of cognitive linguistics as the relative measure of the conventionalization and cognitive entrenchment of the constructions and functions (Langacker 2008).

emotions, conceptualization, metaphor, ontological violation

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