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The Concatenation of Body Part Words and Emotions from the Perspective of Chinese Radicals

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Emotional stimuli can cause physical reactions in the body, and physiological responses further lead to emotional experiences. In the past, the study of emotional body response in linguistics mostly examined the emotions of the language structure of body parts, and it was mostly limited to the study of dictionary meanings, rarely conducting on the basis of corpus. This paper attempts to examine the concatenation of Chinese body part words and emotions in the microblog corpus from the perspective of Chinese radicals. The study found that each type of body radical can be used with any emotion, but the strength of the concatenation with emotion is not the same, such as “鼻(nose)” or “舌(tongue)” are most closely connected with the emotions of disgust; “舌(tongue)” and “牙(齿, tooth)” can best express the feelings of disgust and surprise. This provides a new perspective for the study of body parts and emotions.

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This study was supported by the Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science project (18YJA740030), and supported by Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”) (19YJ040003).

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    Yue Pan & Pengyuan Liu

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Pan, Y., Liu, P., Su, Q. (2020). The Concatenation of Body Part Words and Emotions from the Perspective of Chinese Radicals. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_64

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