Abstract
ROLE OF THE BODY ON THE NAMING OF EMOTION CONCEPTS
Emotions play a decisive and a leading role in the relationship between people and their environment. They are effective on surviving against the threats and difficulties and on establishing stable relationships with other people.
Emotions emerge as a result of the sensing an external stimulus and judging them. Emotions can appear concretely with the participation of body movement and physiological change. We realize the emotions of individuals from the body movement and physiological change with a comparison of pre- and post-emotion processes.
In this study, we examined how emotions are described by using the names of body parts in Turkish. And we concentrated on fear, anger, happiness and sadness lexemes, which are related to body, in Turkish vocabulary. These lexemes were compiled from Türkçe Sözlük that was printed by Turkish Language Institution (Türk Dil Kurumu) in 2011 and Deyimler Sözlüğü (The Dictionary of Idioms) that was published by Ömer Asım Aksoy in 1993. We detected that the observable body movements and physiological changes are effective on naming the emotions that have multiple components. In addition, the changes and reactions in the inner organs that are sensed by experiencers of emotions also serve for naming the emotions.
Keywords
emotion, body, metonymy, metaphor, embodiment