Zur Explikation emotionaler Bedeutungsaspekte sprachlicher Äußerungen

Abstract

Emotions are described as semiotic units, namely as “Emotional Scenes”. These are the result of complex interpretation routines involving units of different description areas. The concept of underspecification is used to refer to cases in which an entity does not bear an entire set of feature-values and is thus compatible with a wide range of potential environments. A text excerpt from Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck” serves as an example to explain the complex interplay of various fields of description.

Keywords

• Emotions
• Underspecification
• Büchner
• Woyzeck