Chapter 30 :Triangulating the GRID: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of five Greek emotion terms

Authors : M. Terkourafi, E. C. Kapnoula, P. Panagiotopoulou & A. Protopapas

Abstract : We outline a corpus-based methodology that builds on Halliday’s framework of systemic functional grammar, in particular his notion of grammatical metaphor, to analyse the semantics of emotion terms, and compare our findings to those of the GRID. We investigate two sets of terms: a) terms deemed to be specific to Greek socio-cultural experiences, and b) terms constituting translation equivalents of a single English term. The results of the corpus analysis confirm those of the GRID and add new dimensions to their meaning or reveal additional stylistic and semantic differences between terms. In conclusion, we propose that the two methodologies are complementary and that using them in tandem can significantly enhance the analytical breadth and depth of future analyses of emotion terms

Keywords : corpus methodology systemic functional grammar grammatical metaphor word meaning contextualisation cognitive semantics translational equivalence

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