Emotions in the English Lexicon: A Historical Study of a Lexical Field
- Author / Editor
- Diller, Hans-Jurgen.
Emotions in the English Lexicon: A Historical Study of a Lexical Field
- Published
- Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 219-34.
- Description
- Studying four families of emotion words (wrath, anger, annoyance, grief) in the Chaucer canon, Diller draws several conclusions: the introduction of emotion words from French and their rivalry with native English words deserve close scrutiny; semantic study of emotion words is inextricably intertwined with their stylistic and cultural study; and such study may bring a new perspective to the question of whether emotions are universal or culture-specific.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Linguistics, 1992.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.