Inchoation of Emotions.ppt

Table 5. Inchoative State of Emotion in both Sinica Corpus and Gigaword Corpus Subtypes Type A Type B Words Frequency Words Frequency happiness 高興 ɡāoxìnɡ ‘happy’ 101 快樂 kuàilè ‘cheerful’ 49 開心 kāixīn ‘joyful’ 16 愉快 yúkuài ‘pleasant’ 6 痛快 tònɡkuài ‘delighted ’ 0 喜悅 xǐyuè ‘joyous’ 7 ? ? ? ? 歡樂 huānlè ‘gay’ 2 ? ? ? ? 歡喜 huānxǐ ‘joy’ 5 ? ? ? 快活 kuàihuo ‘merry’ 3 depression 難過 nánɡuò ‘grieved’ 10 痛苦 tònɡkǔ ‘painful’ 2 痛心 tònɡxīn ‘distressed’ 0 沉重 chénzhònɡ ‘heavy’ 28 沮喪 jǔsànɡ ‘depressed’ 4 sadness 傷心 shānɡxīn ‘sad’ 1 悲傷 bēishānɡ ‘sorrowful’ 6 regret 後悔 hòuhuǐ ‘regret’ 28 遺憾 yíhàn ‘regretful’ 0 anger 生氣 shēnɡqì ‘angry’ 13 憤怒 fènnù ‘wrathful’ 3 氣憤 qìfèn ‘indignant’ 0 fear 害怕 hàipà ‘be afraid’ 56 恐懼 kǒnɡjù ‘fear’ 7 ? 畏懼 wèijù ‘awe’ 3 worry 擔心 dānxīn ‘worry’ 530 煩惱 fánnǎo ‘trouble’ 21 擔憂 dānyōu ‘be anxious about’ 65 苦惱 kǔnǎo ‘distressed’ 2 憂心 yōuxīn ‘sorrow’ 36 ? TOTAL ? 856 148 Inchoation of Emotions However, when we added the total Number of each subtype, we noticed some differences in representing inchoative states as shown in Table 6. When expressing depression, Type A is only 29% of Type B. Similarly, the sadness group of Type A is only 17% of Type B. Moreover, the worry group of Type A contributes a huge portion of the properties of Type A. Inchoation of Emotions The results indicate that Type B is more likely to have an inchoative state than Type A when it is a depressive or sad emotion. This is due to the reason that such kind of negative emotions may easy be spotted. Table 6. Total No. of Type A and Type B Emotions in both Sinica Corpus and Gigaword Corpus subtype Type A No. Type B No. Type A / Type B happiness 117 72 1.63 depression 10 34 0.29 sadness 1 6 0.17 regret 28 0 0 anger 13 3 4.33 fear 56 10 5.60 worry 631 23 27.43 TOTAL 856 147 5.82 Conclusions This paper first proposed two aspectualizers 開始kāishǐ begin and (不)起來 (bù) qǐlái ‘literally (not) stand up, meaning begin to’ to identify the inchoation of emotions, which is complementary to the 了le ‘