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... of the speaker may determine the use of a certtain gramatical forms or avoidance of taboo words, and the different experiences between the interlocutors, is going to affect the way they'll comunicate. Emotion is a "moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body" (Enciclopedia Britannica). This term is commoly and loosely used to denote individual, subgective feelings which dicatate moods. In In psychology, emotion is considered a "response to stimuli that involves characteristic physiological changes-such as increase in pulse rate, rise in body temperature, greater or less activity of certain glands, change in rate of breathing-and tends in itself to motivate the individual toward further activity" (Enciclopedia de Psicologia Universal; Pablo Mendriguez). Early psychological studies of emotion tried to determine whether a certain emotion ...
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