单词 | emotive theory |
释义 | > as lemmasemotive theory emotive theory n. (a) Art and Literary Criticism the theory that the purpose of art or literature is to express emotion (cf. sense B. 3); (b) Philosophy the theory that ethical and value judgements are expressions of feeling rather than assertions of fact; cf. emotivism n. ΚΠ 1901 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 1 78 The doctrine that art is the expression of emotion is, I venture to think, quite mistaken... Mr. Bosanquet's emotive theory of art is, of course, much more refined and philosophical than the foregoing. 1935 J. Laird Enq. Moral Notions vii. 94 Such a view..could have little plausibility unless it were allied with what I have called an emotive theory of value, i.e. that all our approval or appreciation (and our moral approval or appreciation in particular) in the end expresses some variety of our sentiment or emotion. 1989 M. H. Abrams Doing Things with Texts i. 13 Wordsworth's ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads..became the single most important pronouncement of the emotive theory of poetry. 2002 R. S. Hartman Knowl. of Good v. 111 The emotive theory has no criterion for the relation between the referential and expressive meaning of value words. < as lemmas |
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