PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF I- AND WE-SUBJECTIVITY OF EMOTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON THE EMOTIVE-CAUSATIVE ANALYSIS OF NETWORK DISCUSSIONS

<p style=”text-align: right;”><strong>Yu. Kuznetsova</strong></p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”><strong>PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF I- AND WE-SUBJECTIVITY OF EMOTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON THE EMOTIVE-CAUSATIVE ANALYSIS OF NETWORK DISCUSSIONS</strong></p>
<p><em>Abstract.</em> The paper examines the psychological aspects of the emotive constructions’ subjectivity expressed by first-person pronouns. The choice between <em>I</em>- and <em>we</em>-subjectivity for a description of emotional states is discussed in connection with specificities of the writing person’s boundaries personality which affect the intentional basis of his speech activity. The empirical part of the article presents the results of applying the automatic causative-emotive analysis tool TITANIS to the texts of 2048 network discussions on various topics. The more than 16 thousand emotive constructions include first-person pronouns are identified, with 2.6 thousand contain the multiple subject “we” that reflect the attribution of the writing person’s own emotional state to a real group or an indefinite community. Some traits of “I” and “we” as an experimencer or causator accompanying predicates with the semantics of causation of neutral, positive or negative emotions are described. The clustering of causative-emotive analysis data shows a specificity of emotional situations with the “I” as a causator, and a possibility of explaining the attributing emotions to multiply subject “we” by a certain diffusion process of a primary emotional content of the “I” as an experimenter.</p>
<p><em>Keywords:</em> subjectivity, emotive-causative analysis, experimencer, causator, attribution of emotions</p>
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