Actancial Structures and Discursive Profiles of the Combinations of Emotion Verbs in French and Arabic Cover Image

Profils discursifs de la combinatoire des verbes d’émotion en français et en arabe
Actancial Structures and Discursive Profiles of the Combinations of Emotion Verbs in French and Arabic

Author(s): Safa Zouaidi
Subject(s): Language studies, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: combination; affect; translation; contrastive analysis; functional analysis; corpus;

Summary/Abstract: The work is at the syntactic and discursive level: the active form of the verbs affects in French and Arabic: two verbs of emotion (to rage and its equivalent [ʕaɣḍaba] and two verbs of feeling (to admire and its equivalent [ʔaʕʒaba]). These are studied from the perspective of information dynamics within the sentence (Van Valin & LaPolla, 1997). The study is based on the French journalistic corpus EmoBase (Emolex 120M word project) and on the journalistic corpus ArabiCorpus (130M words).

  • Issue Year: 44/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-160
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French