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Conceptualisation of the Emotion Terms: Structuring, Categorisation, Metonymic and Metaphoric Processes within Multi-layered Graph Representation of the Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Corpus Data

This paper1 presents a study on the conceptualisation of nominal emotion lexemes, exemplified by Croatian words: strah ‘fear’, ljutnja ‘anger’, ljubav ‘love’ and ponos ‘pride’, combining several complementary methods and theoretical approaches. The main goal of the study is to discuss theoretical framework and methods for analysing conceptualization networks in linguistic communication from the perspective of the (complex) system theory (Capra 1997, Clayton et al. 2006, Perak and Puljar 2013) and related theoretical frameworks of embodied cognition (Barsalou 2008), componential appraisal theory of emotion (Scherer 2009, Fontaine, Scherer and Soriano 2013), cognitive linguistic approaches to the figurative language conceptualization of emotions (Kövecses 2000, Langacker 2008), and cultural linguistics notion of socially distributed cognition (Sharifian 2015). A system approach of emotional expression takes into account the configurations of different parts involved in the dynamics of the biological, psychological and sociological affective phenomena connected and joined together by a web of relationships. Such an interdisciplinary approach allows us to postulate the problem of the intersubjective communication of affective states in an ontologically non- reductive manner that seeks to reveal what are emotions, how we express emotion concepts in language and what are the patterns of linguistic expression of emotion concepts.

emotion, fear, anger. love, pride

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