Research Article

The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor

Volume: 39 Number: 1 June 28, 2019
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The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor

Abstract

While love has been investigated by scholars in various disciplines, defining this abstract and evasive concept is a daunting task. In order to contribute to the multidisciplinary studies on love, this study investigates the meaning of love and its uses in everyday life in Turkish to provide its prototypes, using computational linguistics and corpus-based methods. The study follows the Prototype Theory and Corpus Semantics and applies corpus and Big Data methods. The data consisted of formal and colloquial dictionaries published by the Turkish Language Association; 2,500 lines, 10,671 types, and 27,855 tokens from the Turkish National Corpus; and, 85,980 short messages (tweets), 130,016 types, and 1,280,736 tokens from Twitter. The results showed that the love concepts were related to prototypes such as QUALITY, QUANTITY, TIME, PLACE, REALITY, MIND, BODY, LANGUAGE, BELIEF, THING, PERSON, PLANT, and VEHICLE. The results also showed that love in Turkish was not only related to positive emotions such as compassion and fun but also negative emotions such as pain and hate. Therefore, love was associated with both positive and negative emotion concepts. There were differences between the definitions of love, including idiomatic expressions in the formal dictionaries and the language used in daily life, because love was used not only in relation to intimate relationships or attachment but also in the context of pain, hate, illness, etc. Love was related to close relationships including both real and imaginary attachment. The meaning of love also differed depending on the context and with regard to (in)formal use of the language.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Beril T. Arık This is me

Publication Date

June 28, 2019

Submission Date

January 30, 2019

Acceptance Date

May 3, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 39 Number: 1

APA
Arık, E., & T. Arık, B. (2019). The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor. Studies in Psychology, 39(1), 151-178. https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP
AMA
1.Arık E, T. Arık B. The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor. Studies in Psychology. 2019;39(1):151-178. https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP
Chicago
Arık, Engin, and Beril T. Arık. 2019. “The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor”. Studies in Psychology 39 (1): 151-78. https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP.
EndNote
Arık E, T. Arık B (June 1, 2019) The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor. Studies in Psychology 39 1 151–178.
IEEE
[1]E. Arık and B. T. Arık, “The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor”, Studies in Psychology, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 151–178, June 2019, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP
ISNAD
Arık, Engin - T. Arık, Beril. “The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor”. Studies in Psychology 39/1 (June 1, 2019): 151-178. https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP.
JAMA
1.Arık E, T. Arık B. The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor. Studies in Psychology. 2019;39:151–178.
MLA
Arık, Engin, and Beril T. Arık. “The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor”. Studies in Psychology, vol. 39, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 151-78, https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP.
Vancouver
1.Engin Arık, Beril T. Arık. The Concept of Love From the Perspectives of Big Data and Corpus Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Metaphor. Studies in Psychology [Internet]. 2019 Jun. 1;39(1):151-78. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA48ZX98EP