JOIE: UN ÉTAT, UNE ÉMOTION OU UN SENTIMENT?
Joy: an emotional state, an emotion or a feeling?
Author(s): Oana PăstaeSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: affect; experiencer; argument structure
Summary/Abstract: This paper will present the semantics of the word joy that is to say we will discuss the syntactic and semantic properties of this noun denoting an “affect” as this term is conventionally chosen to group human states, emotions and feelings. Our purpose is to focus the analysis on a complex word which involves an axiology and social assessment little discussed in the literature. We try to show relying on semantic analyses that the word joy may appear in specific construction for emotional states, but it can also appear as a name denoting an emotion.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Lingvistică
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 447-454
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French