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Grutschus, Anke and Kern, Beate (2014). Deception, surprise, anger and fury. Z. Romanische Philol., 130 (3). S. 605 - 632. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1865-9063

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Abstract

This article presents a corpus-based approach to the comparison of partial synonyms on an intra- and cross-linguistic level. The methodology is demonstrated using the example of three lexical fields in French and Spanish, all from the domain of the lexis of emotion: SURPRISE, DISAPPOINTMENT, ANGER. After the intralinguistic analysis of French surprise/etonnement/stupeur and Spanish decepcion/desencanto/desilusion/desengano, the investigation is extended to include a cross-linguistic comparison of French colere/fureur with Spanish colera/furia. As a first step, data that reveals the combinatory behaviour of the analysed lexical items is extracted from a corpus containing comparable quantities of French and Spanish literary and newspaper texts. The co-occurrences thus obtained are then divided into categories of lexical dimensions, e.g. intensity (furia desatada, honda decepcion) or causation of emotion (dechainer la colere, provoquer de la surprise), creating a tertium comparationis that allows for the comparison between partial synonyms or presumed equivalents in different languages. Finally, the actual analysis is performed using EmoGrammes - an instrument based on descriptive statistics allowing to aggregate and represent the results graphically. This heuristic method has proven particularly helpful in the complex folds of cross-linguistic comparison.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Grutschus, Anke UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kern, Beate UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-426185
DOI:	10.1515/zrp-2014-0052
Journal or Publication Title:	Z. Romanische Philol.
Volume:	130
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 605 - 632
Date:	2014
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1865-9063
Language:	French
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROFILE Multiple languages Language & Linguistics; Literature, Romance Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/42618