Showing posts with label Mental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental. Show all posts

Monday, 31 October 2022

Intense Emotion Without Graduated Affect


This is an experiential construal of intense emotion but not an interpersonal enactment of graduated affect. This is because AFFECT is the system of enacting a positive or negative appraisal by reference to emotion, and no such appraisal is enacted here. (Any enactment of a judgement by the author of the clause is a separate matter.) 

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Surprise Gift


Agent Phenomenon
Process: mental
Medium Senser

it
surprised
me

it
gave
me
a surprise
Agent Actor
Process: material
Beneficiary Recipient
Medium Goal

Note that if a surprise were interpreted as Scope: process, the Actor must then be incongruously interpreted as the Medium of the Process gave.

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

'Move' Serving As Mental Process


Nick Drake's song 'Fruit Tree'
moves
me
deeply
Phenomenon
Process: mental
Senser
Manner: degree