Sunday 20 May 2018

Confusing Affect And Graduation

Martin & Rose (2007: 66-7):
Feelings can be experienced as emotional dispositions, such as sad or happy, or they may appear as surges of behaviour, such as crying and laughing. Each group of emotions is set out in Table 2.8, including examples of both dispositions and surges. Each group includes both positive and negative feelings, with examples that express three degrees of intensity



















Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, the ATTITUDE system of AFFECT is concerned with the use of emotion to appraise — interpersonal enactments — not with emotion as a construal of experience.  The distinction is one of metafunction.

[2] This again confuses the system of GRADUATION ('intensity') with what is purported to be a system of ATTITUDE.

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