In bioethical discussions of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and prenatal screening, accusations of eugenics are commonplace, as are counter-claims that talk of eugenics is misleading and unhelpful. This paper asks whether "eugenics talk", in this context, is legitimate and useful or something to be avoided. It also looks at the extent to which this linguistic question can be answered without...

Abstract: This study explores emotive language in lyrical nature writing from the perspective of ecolinguistics in four nature books. In fact, embodied mind style is explored by considering emotive  language  as  a  linguistic  phenomenon  that  can  inject  into  the  readers'  minds  the sensorial, emotional, and psychological experiences of the lyricist. The interrogation of emotive language...

Across Cultures. NOTE 22p. ABSTRACT The experiment discussed in this report investigates cross cultural ability to decode emotive meaning in extra-verbal vocal expressions of mood. The principal expectation of the study is that primitive mood expressions are understood in much the same way in all the countries tested. The moods depicted in the study-angry, sad, happy, flirtatious, fearful, and ...

An approach for affective product design using a hybrid of tunable particle swarm optimization (PSO) and Kansei engineering is proposed. Customers’ emotive responses to a product are collected using a questionnaire designed on Kansei engineering principles. They are used to create models which can suggest design parameters for the product that may implicitly embody customers’ emotional preferen...

This paper concerns the bimodal transmission of emotive speech and describes how the expression of joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and fear, leads to visual and acoustic target modifications in some Italian phonemes. Current knowledge on the audio-visual transmission of emotive speech traditionally concerns global prosodic and intonational characteristics of speech and facial configurat...

Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why politicians use emotive rhetoric the legislative arena. This article argues is one of tools can strategically to appeal voters. Consequently, expect legislators are more likely debates have a large general audience. Our analysis covers two million parliamentary speeches held UK House Commons Irish Parliamen...