Abstract
Despite the increasing interest in studying Chinese emotion words, there has been no reliable references in the published literature on the category (e.g. happiness, anger) and intensity (e.g. low, high) of emotion words in Chinese as perceived by native speakers. This study is the first to collect and analyze average language users’ perception of emotion category and intensity of Chinese emotion words. Results of this study will serve as an important reference for future research on language and emotion.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Li, S., Wang, Z., Lee, S.Y.-M., Huang, C.-R.: Sentiment Classification with Polarity Shifting Detection. In: 2013 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), pp. 129–132. IEEE, Urumuqi (2013)
Xu, G.: The Construction and Application of Chinese Sentiment Lexicons. PhD dissertation, Peking University (2012)
Chang, L.-L., Chen, K.-J., Huang, C.-R.: Alternation across Semantic Field: A Study of Mandarin Verbs of Emotion. In: Yung, O.-B. (ed.) Special Issue on Chinese Verbal Semantics. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, vol. 5(1), pp. 61–80 (2000)
Xu, X., Tao, J.: The Study of Affective Categorization in Chinese. In: 1st Chinese Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Beijing (2003)
Xu, L., Lin, H., Zhao, J.: Construction and Analysis of Emotional Corpus. Journal of Chinese Information Processing 22(1), 116–122 (2008)
Lee, S.Y.-M.: A Linguistic Approach to Emotion Detection and Classification. PhD dissertation, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2010)
Nabi, R.L.: The Theoretical versus the Lay Meaning of Disgust: Implications for Emotion Research. Cognition and Emotion 16(5), 695–703 (2002)
Strauss, G.P., Allen, D.N.: Emotional Intensity and Categorisation Ratings for Emotional and Nonemotional words. Cognition and Emotion 22(1), 113–133 (2008)
Turner, J.H.: The Evolution of Emotions in Humans: A Darwinian - Durkheimian Analysis. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26, 1–34 (1996)
Turner, J.H.: Human Emotions: a Sociological Theory. Routledge, NewYork (2007)
Turner, J.H.: On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of Human Affect. Stanford University Press, California (2000)
Yao, Y., Lin, J., Huang, C.-R.: Lexicalized Emotion? - Tonal Patterns of Emotion Words in Chinese. In: 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Ann Arbor (to appear)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lin, J., Yao, Y. (2014). Categorization and Intensity of Chinese Emotion Words. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_18
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-14330-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-14331-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)