Current Emotion Research in English Linguistics: Words for Emotions in the History of English

What is it about?

It is about how the meanings of various words for emotions have changed throughout the history of the English language.

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Why is it important?

It is important to realize that people's words for and ideas about emotions have changed in the course of time. In other words, emotions are not just something that happen to us. We understand them through our language, which is not the same as, for example, five hundred years ago. Many people have studied this topic, and this paper is a summary of what they have written about.

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