March 4, 2015

Emotions are at the heart of what it means to be human

(Mason,2015)

  • we perceive the outside world.
  • we act in the world either volitionally or emotionally.
  • our nervous system allows us to live; and
  • cognition operates to make us the human individuals that we are.

Emotion Science

  • Different scientific frameworks to study emotions.(Fox, 2008)

    • Emotions are biologically given?
    • Emotions are socially constructed?
    • Emotions are the result of perception of bodily changes?
    • Emotions are the result of cognitive appraisals?

但是我們要的是

知書達禮 知情達意的人生

  • Focus: Bi-directional relations among cognitive and emotional processes.
  • Goal: a linguistic introduction to emotion from the cognitive and affective perspectives.

因為人生意料不到

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Affect-Cognition Interaction

  • Cognition refers to a person's mental processes and assumes that the mind has internal mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires, intentions) which can be understood in terms of information processing.
  • A cognitive process is generally assumed to have taken place when information coming in through the senses is transformed in some way.

Human Affect

  • Emotion: A relatively brief episode of coordinated brain, automatic and behavioural changes that facilitate a response to an external or internal event of significance for the organism.
  • Mood: More long-lasting affective state (days to months); more difuse
  • Feeling : Subjective representation of emotion, private to individual experiencing them
Affect is a broader all-encompassing term whch refers to general topics of emotion, feelings, and mood together.

Related Affective Phenomena

近義詞區辨練習

心情,氣質,脾氣,性情,性格,情緒,態度,人格特質,品行。

  • Google models of emotions
  • Interesting though.
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再強調一次:我們關心的

  • 不是情緒如何量度,情緒的神經與生理基礎。而是語言可以如何幫助我們:
    • 表達與表徵情緒,
    • 分類情緒概念,
    • 理解認知語意和情緒的介面。

Cognitive appraisal is at the heart of the emotion process ….

舉個例子

Are there Core/Basic Emotions?

《禮記》—-「七情」: 即,喜、怒、哀、懼、愛、惡、欲;

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回到語言表達

暖身題:情緒語言學會是什麼樣子?

  • 語意
  • 構詞與句法
  • 語音
  • 語用與言談
  • 心理神經與習得發展
  • 歷史社會
  • 認知隱喻
  • 計算預測模式
  • (Smiley 符號學)
  • (表意文字系統)

離題一下:妳怎麼回答別人問妳這個問題

讀語言學要幹什麼?!

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Language and Emotion Concepts from scratch

  • 情緒表達語言的(最小)單位是什麼
  • 情緒表達和語意表達是否皆具備組合性

Expressive Units of Emotions

  • Emotion types and Words

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Wordhood issue (in Chinese)

馬雲要燒錢有什麼問題

阿里巴巴創辦人馬雲端上創業基金,全台大都會受到影響。

Homework

Watch: (Yale online course: Human Emotion 1.3: What is an Emotion?)