THE PSYCHO-LINGUISTIC AND SOCIO-LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF EMOTION

Viorica LIFARI Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Аннотация

The conceptual category of emotions has recently more often been studied on the cross-cultural level. This type of research has been done among both psychologists and linguists who are further representing different schools or ideas, as for example the adherents of the theory of universal emotions and those that emphasize the socio-cultural impact of the development of the concept of emotion within a certain ethnic community or culture. The article under discussion offers the reader the ideas and points of view of researchers in the field of psychology, anthropology and linguistics concerning the concept of emotions within a certain culture and the possibility to analyse the given concept through the prism of both theories: that of the universality of emotions on the one hand and that of the cultural specificity of emotion on the other one. Keywords: the cognitive method, the conceptual category, emotion, image schema theory, social-constructivist method.