Love, Loss, and Hope Go Deeper than Language: Linguistic Semantics Has Only a Limited Role in the Interdisciplinary Study of Affect  

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Katz, Leonard D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Emotion Review vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 19–20.
Topik: concept formation; language in emotion research; loss; NSM methodology; separation distress
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Human emotional experience is organized at multiple levels, only some of which are easily penetrable by or dependent on language. Affects connected with mammalian parental care seem involved in Anna Wierzbicka’s example of the experience of Jesus in Gethsemane. However, such affects are not characterizable as she requires, using only NSM’s short list of linguistic semantic universals. Following her methodology, even using an enriched NSM really exhaustive of linguistic semantic universals, may involve serious losses of cognitive opportunity. Specifically, it forecloses any possibility of linking language with other cognitive resources to construct novel concepts, as may be needed to understand the deep biologically-based structure of emotion—which, after all, goes far deeper in us than language does.

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