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Hamlet and Othello Wandering in the Web: Inferences from Network Science on Cognition

Authors:
Francesca Bertacchini
Patrizia Notaro
Mara Vigna
Antonio Procopio
Pietro Pantano
Eleonora Bilotta

Keywords: language; Shakespeare; network; semantics

Abstract:
Network theory was used to gain a deeper understanding of emotional cognition, pretending that Shakespearian tragedies of Othello and Hamlet were life-like linguistic contexts. A manual segmentation of both plays was carried out for defining a lexicon of emotional words represented by networks. For example, the idea of ‘hate’ and ‘anger’ Using ad hoc developed computational methods, further instances of the emotional lexicon networks were compared with WordNet’s manually extracted data. The results revealed organizations of emotional terms’ neighborhoods, evidencing the emergence of emotional patterns, with symmetries and breaches of symmetries, thus giving a strong support to comprehend the dynamics operating on speech production cognitive processes.

Pages: 110 to 119

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: March 20, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-462-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 20, 2016 to March 24, 2016