Organizing the germans’ emotional world through the prism of the opposition ORDNUNG vs. CHAOS: Ambivalent emotion concepts
Keywords:
ambivalent emotion concept, linguo-culture, order, chaos, Sehnsucht, Fernweh.
Abstract
The authors prove the assumption that the linguo-cultural opposition ORDNUNG vs. CHAOS has a certain influence on the formation of such ethno-specific ambivalent emotion concepts (EC) SEHNSUCHT, FERNWEH AND HEIMWEH in the German linguo-culture. Due to the applied methodology (definitional and contextual analyses of EC names) it was established that the German chaos and metaphysical fear (ANGST) oppose a kind of "safety-cosiness quartet", which is represented by concepts SICHERHEIT, GEBORGENHEIT, GEMÜTLICHKEIT and ZUVERLÄSSIGKEIT. It was revealed that the universal principle of perception of the objective world ONE’S OWN vs. ALIEN serves as the basis for the opposition ORDNUNG vs. CHAOS and its derivative ANGST vs. SICHERHEIT & GEBORGENHEIT & GEMÜTLICHKEIT & ZUVERLÄSSIGKEIT. This principle caused "disruption" of the inner world of the German linguo-culture representatives because, on the one hand, they strive for a sense of safety, security, comfort, and stability, which generates "their own" world, but, on the other hand, they constantly try to go beyond the latter, since the "alien" world is associated not only with chaos and danger but also with new sensations and experience. Such an emotional "disruption" of the German people between metaphysical fear and a "safety-cosiness quartet", to some extent, gave rise to the ambivalence of the EC SEHNSUCHT, FERNWEH and HEIMWEH.
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Kotter-Grühn, D., Scheibe, S., Blanchard-Fields, F., & Baltes, P. B. (2009). Developmental emergence and functionality of “Sehnsucht” (life longings): The sample case of involuntary childlessness in middle-aged women. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 634-644. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016359
Krieger, D. (2003). Corpus linguistics: What it is and how it can be applied to teaching. In The internet TESL Journal, 9(3). https://www.aijcr.org/_files/ugd/c51627_bd738f10144146449ab4e8c0a2e2f803.pdf#page=285
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Lomas, T. (2016). Towards a Positive Cross-cultural Lexicography: Enriching Our Emotional Landscape through 216 “Untranslatable” Words Pertaining to Well-being. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(5), 546-558. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2015.1127993
Lomas, T. (2017). The value of ambivalent emotions: a cross-cultural lexical analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1400143
Luhmann, N. (1995). Social Systems. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mayer, S., Scheibe, S., & Riediger, M. (2008). (Un)Reachable? An empirical differentiation of goals and life longings. European Psychologist, 13(2), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.13.2.126
McEnery, T., & Wilson, A. (2001). Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Mizin, K., & Kolesnyk, O. (2021). German Emotional Concepts of Safety, Protection and Comfort through the Prism of the Linguo-Cultural Opposition of ORDNUNG ‘Order’ – CHAOS ‘Chaos’. Studia philologica, 1(16), 18-29. https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2021.163
Mizin, K., & Letiucha, L. (2019). The Linguo-cultural Concept TORSCHLUSSPANIK as the Representative of Ethno-specific Psycho-emotional State of Germans. Psycholinguistics, 25(2), 234-249. https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-25-2-234-249
Mizin, K., & Ovsiienko, L. (2020). The German Linguo-cultural Concept SCHADENFREUDE in Cross-cultural Perspective: A Corpus-based Approach. Lege artis, 5(1), 143-184. https://lartis.sk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MizinOvsiienko_Issue-1_2020.pdf
Mizin, K., & Petrov, O. (2021). Emotional State GEMÜTLICHKEIT in Cross- cultural Perspective: Corpus-based Approach. Studies about Languages / Kalbų studijos, 38, 43-60. http://doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.1.38.26581
Mizin, K., Slavova, L., & Khmara, V. (2021). The equivalence of terms denoting the emotion concepts of Ger. ANGST and A.-S. FEAR: A corpusbased method. Lege artis, 6(2), 69-104. https://lartis.sk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Mizin_et_al.pdf
Mizin, K., Slavova, L., Lyashuk, A., & Hromovenko, V. (2021). The emotion concept of SHAME as one of the markers of social infantilism: Cross-cultural analysis based on language corpora data. Amazonia Investiga, 10(48), 97-106. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.48.12.11
Moss, S.A., & Couchman, G. (2012). The conflict between the interventions that prevent burnout and the culture of modern capitalism: The benefits of ambivalent emotions. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology, 5, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/orp.2012.2
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Schmidt-Lauber, B. (2004). European ethnology and coziness. Questions of an everyday cultural science. Austrian Journal for Historical Studies, 15(4), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2004-15-4-3
Shmelev, A.D. (2005). Some trends in the semantic development of Russian discursive words (na vsiakii sluchai, esli chto, vdrug). Key ideas of the Russian language picture of the world (445-446). Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture. (In Russian)
Scheibe, S., Blanchard-Fields, F., Wiest, M., & Freund, A.M. (2011). Is longing only for Germans? A cross-cultural comparison of Sehnsucht in Germany and the United States. Developmental Psychology, 47(3), 603-618. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021807
Scheibe, S., Freund, A. M., & Baltes, P. B. (2007). Toward a developmental psychology of Sehnsucht (life longings): The optimal (utopian) life. Developmental Psychology, 43(3), 778–795. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.43.3.778
Spiegel Online. (2004, October 25). “Habseligkeiten” ist schönstes deutsches Wort [“Belongings” is the most beautiful German word]. Retrieved from http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,324670,00.html
Tissari, H., Vanhatalo, U., & Siiroinen, M. (2019). From corpus-assisted to corpus-driven NSM explications: The case of Finnish viha (anger, hate). Lege artis, 4(1), 290-334. https://lartis.sk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tissari_et_al_Issue-1_2019.pdf
Wahrig. (2001). True German Dictionary. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann. (In German)
Wierzbicka, A. (1999). Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521256
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2023-02-28
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Mizin, K., Slavova, L., Petrov, O., & Yumrukuz, A. (2023). Organizing the germans’ emotional world through the prism of the opposition ORDNUNG vs. CHAOS: Ambivalent emotion concepts. Amazonia Investiga, 12(61), 224-235. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.61.01.23
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