Feeling, emotion and the company they keep: what adjectives reveal about the substantives feeling and emotion

This paper analyzes the adjectives modifying the substantives emotion and feeling in contemporary American and British English. It argues that although the two nouns refer to affects and are treated as synonyms in dictionary definitions, they are not semantic equivalents. The study of their collocat...

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Main Author: Stéphanie Béligon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2020-06-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/4322
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