Author, as appears in the article.: Zheng, RY; Zhang, M; Guo, TM; Guasch, M; Ferré, P
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc / Zheng, Ruiyao
Keywords: Valence Prototypicality Emotionality Emotion words Arousal Affective norms valence focus valence spanish words prototypicality laden words individual-differences facial expressions face emotionality cultural-differences arousal adaptation
Abstract: Exemplars of concepts vary in their degree of prototypicality. This is also true for emotion concepts. This study presents prototypicality ratings for a large set of Chinese words. The database contains 636 potential Chinese emotion words (i.e., words that directly express particular emotions, like " happy" and " sad"), from different grammatical categories. Native Chinese speakers rated the words in terms of emotional prototypicality. The database also contains values for valence, arousal, and emotionality. The analyses of the ratings revealed that 502 out of 636 words had a high prototypicality value (value equal to or above three on a 1-to-5 scale), the most prototypical words being negative and high-arousal words. The analyses also indicated that the emotional prototypicality of a word was positively related to both arousal and emotionality, and negatively related to valence. Among these variables, arousal was the most important contributor. Similar results have been found in studies conducted in other languages. This will be a useful resource for researchers interested in studying emotion words in the Chinese language and for those interested in cross-linguistic comparisons.© 2023. The Author(s).
Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psicología Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Language & linguistics General psychology Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Experimental and cognitive psychology Educação física Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Applied linguistics
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat marc.guasch@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-6898-120X
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10936-023-10018-9
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Psycholinguistic Research.
APA: Zheng, RY; Zhang, M; Guo, TM; Guasch, M; Ferré, P (2023). Emotional Prototypicality Ratings for 636 Chinese Words: A Database of Chinese Words with Affective Information. Journal Of Psycholinguistic Research, (), -. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-10018-9
Article's DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-10018-9
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications