In Awe of God, Nature and Technology: A Lexical Approach to the Differentiation of Emotional Responses

This article investigates typical usage patterns of the word awe in English language and how it is related to psychology depict specific lexical representation emotions. Contextual analysis corpus data revealed inconsistencies lexicographic description awe, regarded by most dictionaries as monosemous. Using linguistic tools analysis, a functional classification experiences English-speaking culture was created form dictionary entry for awe. The demonstrates that has threefold sense structure based on two major distinctions: 1) evaluative attitudes perceiving self (ambivalent, positive, negative) 2) vastness perceived stimulus (transcendental vs mundane). established collocational suggest cases exist purely negative transcendence described largely overlooked modern psychological studies because prescriptive research designs. Therefore, descriptive might better be considered improved differentiation emotional states highlighted natural language. Keywords: archetype; awe; analysis; lexicography; transcendental experience