MODULES FOR THE STUDY OF SPOKEN EMOTION
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Module 1 – Spoken Emotion: Approach, Method of Study
Ordinary emotional skills and positions – Approaches to the language of emotion – Ethnocentric bias in the study of emotion?

Module 2 – Tension, Exclamation

Module 3 –Affect, Emotion, Mood, Passion, Pathos, Feeling
How to differentiate the general terms articulating the field of emotion

Module 4 – Defining emotion and the word “emotion”
Defining emotion: An organized form of human existence — A syndrome — A phasic phenomenon vs. mood, thymic background — Emergent emotion vs. persistent emotion
Defining “emotion”: Dictionary definitions

Module 5 – Specific emotion terms: A collection of lists
We consider basic lists of emotions, as established by philosophers (Aristotle, Descartes, Hume), rhetoricians (Aristotle, Cicero), theologians, psychologists (Ekman).

Module 6 – Emotion words and Emotion sentences
 Emotion Nouns, E. Adjectives E. Adverbs
E. Verbs (Psychological Verbs) – Metaphorical E. Verbs

Module 7 – Towards a dictionary of families of emotion terms
The basic lexical unit for the study of emotion in speech is not the lexeme but the semantically homogeneous morpho-lexical family.

Module 8 – Dissemination of emotion words in the lexicon
Emotion words (some hundred) – Words orienting towards an emotion (several thousand)
The lexicon, a fundamental resource for the study of emotion.

Module 9 – Reconstructing emotion statements
— Emotion points, where the emotion is explicited
— Link the emotion to an experiencer Ψ and a situation Σ
— If necessary, determine the emotion Attributors and the emotion Orchestrator

Module 10 – Voice, Mimics, Postures and Gestures
The VMPG component of the emotion syndrome

Module 11- Emotion and Situation
Emotions are related to the situation under a given description.

Module 12 – Structuration lines of the cognitive-emotional world of Ψ
Inseparability of emotion and cognition in speech.

Module 13 – Pathos: Argumentation vs Rhetoric
Rhetoric: Pathos, or proof by emotion
Sophisms ad passiones: an argumentation without subject nor affects
Argumentation at the risk of alexythmia

Module 14 – Subjectivity