Because of the presence of Japanese-owned industrial units in the West, the business applications of understanding Japanese emotions are very topical. For the Westerner then, the study of Japanese emotions is complex. This leads to a study of the 'display rules' of Japanese emotion, their indivi...
Welcome to the enchanting world of beautiful Japanese words, where language transcends mere communication and becomes a canvas for culture, emotions, and experiences. From the poetic elegance of “komorebi,” painting sunlight filtering through leaves, to the profound wisdom of “tsundoku,” describing...
In each autobiography, emotional words were identified and the percentages of emotional words were calculated separated by valence (positive versus negative). As a results, either positive or negative emotions did not predict longevity, after controlling for year of publication, year of birth, ...
Children’s utterances were transcribed, and then emotion words were coded into categories. The parents rated their children’s prosocial and aggressive behaviors on a 24-item questionnaire. The results show that (1) the children talked more about negative emotions than positive emotions presented in...
These are words that describe feelings and emotions. Usually, onomatopoeia thatmimics a sound is written in katakana. For example, ワンワン (woof woof), ケロケロ (ribbit ribbit) and ドカン (boom!) are all written in katakana. Onomatopoeia thatmimics actions, emotions, psychological or physic...
The study is theoretically and conceptually founded in the literature of the interplay between language, culture, and thought, and draws on notions from the fields of cross-cultural semantics and emotions. As existing methods are not adequate for the purpose of the thesis, a new methodological ...
Development of Japanese WordNet Affect for Analysing Emotions in Text This paper reports on the extended task of analysing emotions in Japanese based on sense weight based scoring techniques. The previous attempt was carried out in developing Japanese WordNet Affect from the English WordNet Af- fect...
Happy, angry, amazed—these are some of the emotions we like to express these days when we’re sending a message on our smart phones. That’s why many of us now add little pictures to our texts to brighten up someone’s mobile screen but we’re also using them a...
Japanese language has an extensive set of mimetic words, or onomatopoeias, which enables speakers of the language to express their emotions vividly or to describe the situations precisely. In this paper, the author tries to select the basic Japanese onomatopoeias and shows an idea of making pract...
In particular, emotion words related to the propagation of messages, such as those expressing "dislike", were used more frequently by conservatives, while the use of adjectives by conservatives was closer to that of moderate users, indicating that conservative tweets are more palatable for moderate ...