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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 in terms of cognitive schematic relations of ENTITIES, PROPERTIES and PROCESSES organized in the syntactic constructions. 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 emotion 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 syntactic constructions (Perak 2014), as well as c) the features of appraisal process within the componential process model of emotion (Scherer 2003 ; Fontaine et al. 2013). 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. The emotion words are coded as target nodes when in thematic semantic roles (e.g. odagnati strahPATIENT ‘to chase away fear’), and in a position of source nodes when in agentive semantic roles (strahAGENT zavladao ‘fear rules’). It is argued that the qualitative results, represented in a multi- layered network of superimposed layers, express the conceptual knowledge of the emotion categories and the function within dynamic appraisal process. The quantitative results 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). References 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: OUP.

emotions ; semantical multilayer network analisis ; cognitive linguistics

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