Znaczenie języka w rozpoznawaniu i kategoryzacji stanów emocjonalnych. Relacja między „ja” i emocjami w kontekście kulturowym
The role of language in recognition and categorization of emotional states. Relation between “me” and emotion in cultural context.

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the analysis of the importance of language in the self-determinationof one’s emotional states and his/her determination of the same in another person.In the first part of the article the author presents the difficulties with the categorization of emotions which are the result of using different languages. Further, he proves, thatthe broadly understood culture, in which a language is an indispensable dimension, is of the key significance in the comprehension of emotions. Taking into considerationthe fact that the emotions are connected to the “subjective self” in a special way, thefundamental role should be attributed to the shaping of the mental structure whichdefines the character of this “subjective self”. The collectivist and individualist culturesare the examples the dissimilarities in the self-structure shaping. They delineate the waysin which emotional states are experienced, and what types of the experienced emotionsdominate. The language as a fundamental system of social communication confersthe meanings on emotional states. Through this meaning it explains the variability ofexperiencing the emotions and guides the ways the emotional states are categorized.

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