| This thesis is written to help people whose second language or foreign language is English to understand a number of human emotion words systematically and profoundly, to provide textbook compilers some references to emotion word selection according to different teaching objects and contents and to probe the application of relating linguistic theories in the study of emotion field.In this thesis relating linguistic theories and modern statistic research methods are utilized to study emotion words quantitatively and qualitatively. It is concluded that the relating linguistic theories have their own advantages and limitations in the study of emotion field and emotion words; the distributions of human emotion words are significantly different between MFC and the other six corpora; human emotion field can be classified further into several sub-fields, in which the distributions of emotion words are of characteristics between MFC and the other six corpora; 50 words of top frequency in each corpus feature in their origins and ranges.
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