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Behavioural Profiles and Cognitive Models

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Behavioural Profiles and Cognitive Models A usage-based approach to the conceptual structure of ANGER in English and Russian Despite the descriptive power of Lakoff's (1987) Idealised Cognitive Models, it has proven difficult to falsify results obtained through this approach and those results are unable to account for the effects of social variation upon proposed structures. This study seeks to demonstrate that the Behavioural Profile Approach (Geeraerts et al. 1994; Gries 2003) can produce entirely bottom up quantitative descriptions of conceptual structure, sufficiently fine-grained to detect socio-cultural differences. This study examines the emotion concept of ANGER in contemporary English and Russian. The concept is chosen because both traditional Cognitive Linguistic (Kövecses 1986; Lakoff 1987) and corpus driven research (Soriano 2003, Glynn & Matusevich 2018) have previously examined the concept. Since it is impossible to retrieve occurrences of a concept in a corpus, the approach adopted here begins with a lexical field and makes the assumption that cultural keywords are fundamental to conceptual structures (Wierzbicka 1985). Beginning with items identified in thesauri, a complete list of lexemes typically used to refer to the concept of ANGER is established. Following this, the most frequent lexemes are 'short-listed' as representative keywords. These items are then used to extract natural language occurrences where people are discussing the experience of ANGER. Importantly, the understanding of the anger events form the object of study and not the lexical semantics per se. For this reason, no attempt is made at controlling for part-of-speech or other language structure effects. A total of 120 occurrences of each of the four most frequent lexemes in each language are extracted (angry, anger, pissed off, mad, гнев, бесить, злой, сердитый). The LiveJournal Corpus (Speelman & Glynn 2005) is employed for three reasons: (i) representative of contemporary language; (ii) texts constitute personal diaries where people speak in detail about emotional experiences; (iii) Russian and English components are almost perfectively comparable in style, register and topic of discourse. The usage-feature analysis is based upon the cross-linguistic GRID project developed in social psychology (Fontaine et al.). This project has identified universal dimensions that characterize emotions across the world's languages. The coding schema focuses on various characteristics of the different participants in the ANGER event-frame, namely the experiencer behavior, the cause of emotion and the person potentially responsible. Likert scales and multiple coders are used where appropriate and Kappa coefficients are used to determine inter-coder reliability. In order to identify patterns across the usage-events, space reduction multivariate techniques are employed (correspondence analysis / factor analysis). Once the underlying factors structuring the data have been identified, confirmatory techniques (regression modeling / random forests) are used to calculate the significance, relative effect size and overall accuracy of the descriptions. Preliminary results, based on sub-samples, reveal clear similarities between the two languages but also systematic differences, especially in the cause of the emotional response. Fontaine, J., et al. 2010. Components of Emotional Meaning. Oxford: OUP. Geeraerts, D. et al. 1994. The Structure of Lexical Variation. Berlin: Mouton. Glynn, D. & Matusevich, I. 2018. Metaphoric structuring of ANGER in English and Russian. 14th ICLC, Tartu. Gries, St. Th. 2003. Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics. London: Continuum. Kövecses, Z. 1986. Metaphors of Anger, Pride, and Love. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Lakoff, G. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. London: UCP. Soriano, C. 2003. Some ANGER metaphors in Spanish and English. IJES 3: 107-122. Speelman, D. & Glynn, D. 2005. LiveJournal Corpus of English and Russian. Leuven University. Wierzbicka, A. 1985. Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
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Dylan Glynn, Aliya Gimadieva, Irina Matusevich. Behavioural Profiles and Cognitive Models: A usage-based approach to the conceptual structure of ANGER in English and Russian. 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2022, Erfurt, Germany. ⟨hal-04029328⟩
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