Emotional

Emotiv (from Latin emovere "to excite, put in an excited state", English emotive and French émotif "emotional, emotionally related ") is a foreign word that is used in different meanings:

• As adjective is emotiv particularly in the composition emotive function in the semiotic , communication science and pragmatic linguistics sometimes for the expressive function used by linguistic and other characters to the communication from the inner feeling and review attitude of the utterance of the speaker / transmitter of other functions or To delimit a communication act (such as the descriptive communication of a fact or the appeal function to the listener / recipient). In speech act theory , the emotive function belongs to the illocutionary functions of speech acts.
• In psychotherapy , rational emotional therapy is a behavioral therapy that treats behavioral disorders caused by attitudes and feelings.
• Under the influence of English, Emotiv is sometimes used as a noun ( the Emotiv , plural the Emotive ) to denote linguistic expressions of feeling (e.g. interjections ) or graphic designations of an emotional state or mood (" emoticons ").

literature

• Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . Metzler, Stuttgart 2000 ISBN 347601519X
• Alburey Castell: Meaning: Emotive, Descriptive, and Critical. In: Ethics 1949: 60, pp. 55-61