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Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study

Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study

Dziwirek, Katarzyna
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara

Hardcover

Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [Acl], Book 16

PolishLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110227746
ISBN13: 9783110227741
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 16 2010
Pages: 189
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Nominated for the Best contribution to Slavic Linguistics/AATSEEL book award 2011

The concept of complex emotions is obviously polysemous. On the one hand, we can interpret it as a non-basic, non-prototypical, or culture-specific notion, on the other - and this is the interpretation we propose in this work - a complex emotion concept can be looked upon as a concept whose complexity emerges in interaction, due to the complex nature of its object. Our interpretation is thus construction-based, one in which meaning is not to be found exclusively in the lexical semantics of the term, but also in the, clearly meaning-laden, grammatical construction, e.g. a complement clause, expressing the object or cause of the emotion. The construal of a scene mapped on the form of a complex sentence involves the emotion that is unambiguously complex and not necessarily universal or prototypical. We argue throughout this book that cross-linguistic grammatical mismatches are a visible sign of conceptual and categorizational distinctions between the conceptualization of emotion in different languages and cultures. They also signal differences in what individual speakers consider salient in a portrayed scene.

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