In this article, by means of lexico-semantic and lexico-stylistic analysis, it is proved that the emotive context performs a special meaning-generating function in literary text, influencing meaning text as whole reader’s understanding it.
 Purpose. The purpose article to identify role semantic structure text.
 Methods. Methodologically, an interdisciplinary one, based on use both gen...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of different types of televised mass media campaign content on calls to the English NHS Stop Smoking helpline. METHOD We used UK government-funded televised tobacco control campaigns from April 2005 to April 2010, categorised as either "positive" (eliciting happiness, satisfaction or hope) or "negative" (eliciting fear, guilt or disgust). We built negative...

In order to speed-up the procedure for building an emotive/expressive talking head such as LUCIA, an integrated software called INTERFACE was designed and implemented in Matlab©. INTERFACE simplifies and automates many of the operations needed for that purpose. A set of processing tools, focusing mainly on dynamic articulatory data physically extracted by an automatic optotracking 3D movement a...

Childbirth is a highly emotive event that can involve complications. Around 1% of births in the United Kingdom involve life-threatening complications to the mother (Waterstone, Bewley, & Wolfe, 2001) and 0.8% result in stillbirth or perinatal death (Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health [CEMACH], 2009). A review found that 3.1% of women report posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...