REDEFINING BASIC EMOTION CONCEPTS IN DICTIONARIES: A METHOD SUGGESTION

In this study, basic emotion concepts will be investigated, the definitions of basic emotion concepts in which general dictionaries, Türkçe Sözlük and Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, will be investigated. The meaning of the basic emotion concepts will be made various suggestions on how they can be defined the perspective of cognitive linguistics. In this study, the basic emotions concepts that will be investigated are “anger, aversion, hate, fear, sadness, desire, love, happiness, and joy.” In the study randomly selected university students were asked to place nine basic emotion concepts according to Kövecses’s prototypical emotion scenarios. The data which obtained was investigated according to the similarities and differences, then nine basic emotion concepts are defined