Central emotions and hubs in a colexification network.

ABSTRACT: By focusing on colexification, we detected central emotions sharing semantic commonalities with many other emotions in terms of a semantic relationship of both similarity and associativity. In analysis, we created colexification networks from multiple languages by assigning a concept to a vertex and colexification to an edge. We identify concepts of emotions with a large weight in the colexification network and specify central emotions by finding hub emotions. Our resultant central emotions are four: "GOOD," "WANT," "BAD," and "LOVE."

SUBMITTER: Fukuya M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710517 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature