On the Concreteness of the Japanese Language in Expressing Emotions
Emotions are derived from the bodily experience of human beings. As one of the human experiences, human emotional experience is also concrete and perceptual. Normally, when we talk about such emotions as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, we refer to abstract emotional concepts, which are phenomena of consciousness unique of human beings. Therefore, the concept of emotion encompasses two connotations, both abstract and concrete. Expressing emotions with language is characterized by concreteness, which is based on the concreteness of experience and the metaphorical features of language. The concreteness of emotive expressions in the Japanese language is shown in various aspects in the Japanese context, such as the use of large numbers of native Japanese words, imitativeness words, and concrete nouns at the lexical level, and the frequent employment of other types of verbs and verb phrases in expressing emotions at the phrasal level.
expression of emotions concreteness imitativeness imagery value metaphor
GUAN Wei
College of Japanese Culture and Economy,Shanghai International Studies Universi International Participant Dept.,Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination Shanghai,200081,P.R.China
国际会议
太原
英文
186-190
2011-02-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）