Sprachwissenschaft [...] etwas für Leute, welche die Pedanterie zur Mathematik hätten, nicht jedoch die Intelligenz. Leute, die sich ihre eigene notdürftige Logik erfänden“. Auf den Spuren des Ausdrucks von Emotionen

In order to track down the devices used in the verbal expression of emotions, it is helpful to proceed semasiologically, for example by searching for emotive expressions in authentic texts. In texts written in everyday language, emotions are frequently verbalized without designating any particular emotion. Therefore, the pertinent linguistic devices should be identified with the aid of a small corpus, because only in this way can corpus-linguistic principles of exhaustivity and context-sensitivity be fulfilled. This brings into focus syntactic devices, which have so far (for the most part) been neglected by research in the field of emotiology