Positive or Negative Emotions: The Speaker’s Choice

DOI

10.2991/icassr.2013.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

address terms; emotion; co-variation; metaphorical realization

Abstract

This paper explores how speakers use address terms metaphorically to express their emotions. A co-variation scale of emotion and meaning is constructed and the metaphorical realization of address terms are revealed: speakers may express the positive emotions by choosing negative address terms, or express the negative emotions by choosng positive address terms. And an illustration is provided by analyzing the examples in some Chinese literary works.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhanfang Li
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TI  - Positive or Negative Emotions: The Speaker’s Choice
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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