Software architecture

1. Software architecture Preliminary remarks • Fiction provides a fundamental analysis prospect, effective to describe an emotional term. • Starting from a text it is possible to build the relationships among the words inside a linguistic system, considered as an isolated system • The meaning of the term is completely organized in the context. • We build a model and a metalanguage, both of which allow the description of emotional words: from the context to the extra context

2. Software architecture The Database, processed from a descriptive model, allows data processing, data comparison and data filing. One of its most important functions is to rapidly process indexes and concordances. A dedicated software links the text and the data in an easy, univocal way, allowing both an automatic input of the chosen item and the context in the database, and identifying the room used from the item in a wider context than the database

3. Starting from the text • To link up texts to DB we chose the logic of the project: • Using a wizard, it is created a project file: a file containing the information where are one or more Word files containing the text and where is the linked database. • It is also possible to create a new database automatically linked to the text.

12. The database • Relational normalized db with 4 tables: • Archive table: contains the data • Emotion list table: contains the list of emotions 3. Item type table e 4.Type 2 table contain classifications of the descriptive model

13. Relationships between tables

15. Causative term- terms describing a quality or an action that provokes an emotional reaction in other person • Objective description- terms which do not refer directly to inner states but, however, have strong affective content; these terms describe only the conditions where an emotion could be developed • Manifestation, representation and gesture- any external expression of an emotion or state of mind • Disposition - permanent quality or humoural tendency towards a certain emotion or state of mind • Bodily sensation – physical sensations • Emotion, state of mind

16. Example • 您刚才用的这些词让我们很震惊，因为我们觉得这些词是不应该用在他们身上的，比如善良，比如可爱 (…)

17. Categories at the same conceptual level Information about term type

18. Information about term type • 象征性的表达法symbolic descriptions • 成语, 俗语，谚语chengyu, suyu, yanyu • 带有感情色彩的称谓或诨名或感叹词appellations, epithets, interjections, onomatopoeia • 身体的知觉bodily sensations • We decided to include generic terms, labelling the phenomena of emotion in general, such as “emotion”, “passion”, “feeling”, “heart”

19. Emotions and states of mind as core elements of the model • Subdivision: two hierarchically organized levels are differentiated • A first, upper level groups the categories of the basic level into wide emotional complexes referring to both the classical Chinese tradition and to several psychology studies.

20. The upper level is defined comparing the basic emotions in the Chinese and the Western tradition

21. Upper level categories • 爱/欲positive expectations and interactions • 喜/乐satisfactory affects • 哀/悲/忧unsatisfactory affects • 恐/惊negative projections • 怒/恶aggressive-opposing emotions

22. In the second one we find more precise distinctions than the super tidy concepts of emotion • The emotions and the states of mind are ordered in categories with vague borders whose members are grouped by familiarity around a typical central element. • These categories are the elements of a metalanguage allowing the description of the semantic spaces of the terms. This metalanguage is thus the basis of the comparison among different linguistic systems.

23. Emotions

25. Example • 您刚才用的这些词让我们很震惊，因为我们觉得这些词是不应该用在他们身上的，比如善良，比如可爱 (…) 震惊 should be classified belonging to thisgroup

26. The card

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