Being moved: linguistic representation and conceptual structure
- This study explored the organization of the semantic field and the conceptual structure of moving experiences by investigating German-language expressions referring to the emotional state of being moved. We used present and past participles of eight psychological verbs as primes in a free word-association task, as these grammatical forms place their conceptual focus on the eliciting situation and on the felt emotional state, respectively. By applying a taxonomy of basic knowledge types and computing the Cognitive Salience Index, we identified joy and sadness as key emotional ingredients of being moved, and significant life events and art experiences as main elicitors of this emotional state. Metric multidimensional scaling analyses of the semantic field revealed that the core terms designate a cluster of emotional states characterized by low degrees of arousal and slightly positive valence, the latter due to a nearly balanced representation of positive and negative elements in the conceptual structure of being moved.
Author: | Milena Kühnast, Valentin Wagner, Eugen Wassiliwizky, Thomas Jacobsen, Winfried MenninghausORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-469046 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-2979-2 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01242 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2014/11/03 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/06/29 |
Tag: | Empirische Ästhetik being moved; emotion concepts; free word association; linguistic representation; prosocial feelings |
GND Keyword: | Ergriffenheit; Expressivität <Linguistik>; Wortassoziation; Ästhetik; Gefühl; Gefühlsausdruck |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | Article1242 |
Page Number: | 11 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 11 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 435670069 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik (MPIEA) | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.07.00 Ästhetik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |