A nonmediational approach to emotions and feelings (2019)

Russian Journal of Communication 12 (3), 2020

2020

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 1998

RESUMEN: En este artículo se analiza la estructura interna del dominio léxico de SENTIMIENTO, en cuanto a la interfaz entre su jerarquía semántica y los patrones de complementación de sus miembros. De esta manera, puede decirse que semántica y sintaxis convergen en una representación del conocimiento. Se utiliza la naturaleza jerárquica de esquemas cognitivos a nivel de dimensión para mostrar cómo la gradación implícita en ellos refleja niveles de prominencia conceptual. Este análisis permite poner en relieve parámetros de categorización, que realzan perspectivas diferentes sobre nuestra representación mental de los sentimientos.

Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento, 2012

for their very helpful comments. RESUMO A distinção entre emoção e comportamento emocional é uma diferenciação importante que não tem sido feita amplamente. Apesar das muitas abordagens existentes para emoção, a abordagem utilizada aqui é baseada em uma análise de contingência conseqüencial. Emoção é tratada não como uma causa do comportamento, nem causada pelo comportamento. Em vez disso, tanto o comportamento quanto a emoção (um evento privado especificamente) são considerados como função de contingências de seleção. O objetivo não é mudar emoções, mas tornar o cliente sensível a elas, e dessa maneira às contingências das quais elas são função. Quando alguém age mostrando características comportamentais e fisiológicas tipicamente associadas com uma emoção, a evidência pública é tratada como comportamento emocional. Um exemplo construído sobre uma forma de comportamento agressivo é utilizado para ajudar a fazer a distinção entre emoções e comportamento emocional, e fornece uma ilustração da transição de emoção como um descritor de uma contingência conseqüencial para o comportamento emocional que é mantido pelas próprias conseqüências. Uma vez que emoção muda para comportamento emocional, a emoção privada sentida pode não ser mais indicativa da contingência originária da qual ela era um descritor, mas em vez disso pode ser um componente necessário para alcançar o requisito da contingência.

Argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events. B. Nolan y E. Diedrichsen (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017

This paper examines the syntax and semantics of sentir 'to feel'. In use, sentir takes different complement types with corresponding differences in meaning. Syntactically, sentir takes nouns, adjectives, past participles, and clauses. Semantically, it conveys physical, emotional and cognitive senses, as well as attitude and judgment meanings. We propose that nominal complements correlate with an unmediated physical and emotional perception of an object, while syntactic complements report a thought or opinion towards a proposition. Interestingly, adjectives and past participles describe the state, quality, or property of the perceived object; here, sentir(se) behaves as a pseudo-copulative verb taking a second predicate as a complement.

Based on my earlier work on the conceptualization of emotions, I wish to emphasize a number of points in this paper. First, I suggest that emotion concepts are largely metaphorical and metonymic in nature. Second, I propose that several of the conceptual metaphors and metonymies are tightly connected. Third, in line with a large body of recent result, I maintain that many of our emotion concepts have a bodily basis, i.e., that they are embodied. Fourth, I concur with many others that our emotion concepts can be seen to have a frame-like structure, i.e., that they can be represented as cognitive-cultural models in the mind. Fifth, and on the methodology side, I claim that the description and analysis of emotion concepts requires both a qualitative and a quantitative methodology. Though most of these suggestions have been accepted and embraced by a number of scholars working on the emotions, several other scholars have challenged the suggestions. As a response to such challenges, I have revised and modified the ideas above in the past 25 years. The present paper is concerned with these more recent developments.

Emotions are phylogenetically ancient and involve complex interactions of neural, behavioral, and physiological processes. A complete theory of emotions must incorporate, or at least be informed by, current knowledge from neurobiology and comparative psychology . The Quartet Theory of Human Emotions by Koelsch and colleagues is therefore a welcome step towards a more integrative affective science.

in D. Romand et M. Le Du (Eds.), Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity. Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

In this introductory chapter, I discuss the ins and outs of the issue of linguistic feeling-which is defined here, very generally speaking, as one's capacity to intuitively apprehend language normativity. The objective is to propose, for the first time, an encompassing cross-disciplinary reflection on both past and present studies on the question, while insisting on the key theoretical and epistemological issues at stake. I first review the various autonomous research traditions that have been carried out regarding the notion here generically referred to as "linguistic feeling." Then, in light of the rich existing linguistic and philosophical literature, I successively discuss the question of the place and status of linguistic feeling in the study of language and its properties, nature and etiology. I also address the problem of the psychoaffective nature of linguistic feeling by showing that, after having been until recently a controversial issue, the question of whether linguistic feeling is actually a "feeling" has established itself as a crucial theoretical issue. The chapter ends with a synoptic presentation of the volume's eight thematic chapters: I highlight how, taken together, these chapters may significantly contribute to renewing research on linguistic feeling.

Language Sciences, 1997

The relationship between language and emotions can be viewed from two angles. First, language, in a broad sense, can be viewed as being done (performed) 'emotively'. Taking this angle, it is commonly assumed that people, at least on occasions, 'have' emotions, and that 'being emotional' gains its own agency, impacting in a variety of ways on the communicative situation. l This can take place extralinguistically (e.g. by facial expressions, body postures, proximity, and the like), in terms of suprasegmentational and prosodic features, and in terms of linguistic (lexical and syntactic) forms, A recent collection of articles in a special issue of the