Language, Concepts and Emotions


	Language, Concepts and Emotions

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1-11-2008 4:26 AM

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emotions, and as such can be used as a starting point to explore the world of emotions in
different languages as well as in different "language games".</P><P>
    However, taking this orientation as the starting point, one is immediately challenged to
consider the role of language in much more detail. If language is conceived of as merely
representing (in the sense of 'mirroring') the world of emotions and/or people's
conceptualizations and understandings of the emotions, language offers an immediate access.
Language, in this view, is "transparent". If language, however, is conceived of in one or another
way as contributing to how emotions are understood, or even, to what emotions "are", the
relationship is not direct, but mediated.</P><P>
    It is this second orientation that I will take as a starting point for this paper.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D5F9DF2-9FCE-4A4F-AFF8-D74801150323/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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