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A Linguistic Model for Emotion Expression

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Emotion and Cause

Part of the book series: Studies in East Asian Linguistics ((SEAL))

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The lack of a comprehensive linguistic theory of emotion is surprising given the rich literature in neighbouring fields, such as cognitive psychology and computational linguistics. The current Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) theory offers a comprehensive language-independent account of emotions based on a list of universal semantic primitives. It can represent emotions through three of the proposed semantic primitives: the mental predicate feel, and the evaluators good and bad.

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    ↑ = high; ↓ = low; ↑↓ = mid; – = NIL.

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    Sophia Yat Mei Lee

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Lee, S.Y. (2019). A Linguistic Model for Emotion Expression. In: Emotion and Cause. Studies in East Asian Linguistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6194-3_6

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