Sugestii pentru o abordare istoric-culturală a vocabularului afectivităţii
For a cultural-historical approach of the vocabulary of affectivity

Summary/Abstract: The paper puts forward a brief and selective overview of some theoretical paradigms delineated for the study of emotions, which take into account the prototypic dimensions of affectivity: (a) the cultural-anthropologic aspect; (b) the social/societal aspect; (c) the historical aspect; (d) the linguistic (lexical-semantic) aspect. We shall demarcate and describe some key-concepts of the anthropological and cultural-historical research on emotions: cognitive model for emotions; emotionology; emotional communities; historical semantics of emotions. Underlying the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach in the study of emotions and, particularly, the need for an historical/diachronic perspective, the aim of this paper is the delimitation of some methodological tools that can be used: (a) broadly, in the analysis of various forms of manifestation of affectivity in language, and (b) especially, in the lexical-semantic analysis of the affective lexicon.

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