分析身体部位词汇如何反映情绪与健康，揭示语言中的身心关联
The Language of Interoception: Examining Embodiment and Emotion Through a Corpus of Body Part Mentions
- 构建英文网络文本中身体部位提及的语料库，含情绪标注数据
- 发现5%~10%的帖子包含身体部位词，且其使用随时间和地区变化
- 身体语言与情绪强度、健康状况恶化显著相关，适合跨学科研究者
本文首次在大规模自然语言数据中系统探究情绪、具身性与日常语言的关系。我们构建了博客和推文中的身体部位提及（BPMs）语料库，并包含部分由人工标注的情绪信息。结果表明，身体部位词在个人叙事和推文中较为常见（约占5%至10%），其使用模式在时间和地理上存在显著差异。结合词-情绪关联词典与标注数据，我们发现含有身体部位词的文本情绪强度更高，即使该部位未被明确用于描述情绪反应。此外，我们发现身体相关语言与多种较差健康结果之间存在强而统计显著的相关性。综上，本研究主张探索身体部位词汇在语言中的作用，可为自然语言处理、情感科学及人类福祉研究开辟新路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper is the first investigation of the connection between emotion, embodiment, and everyday language in a large sample of natural language data. We created corpora of body part mentions (BPMs) in online English text (blog posts and tweets). This includes a subset featuring human annotations for the emotions of the person whose body part is mentioned in the text. We show that BPMs are common in personal narratives and tweets (~5% to 10% of posts include BPMs) and that their usage patterns vary markedly by time and %geographic location. Using word-emotion association lexicons and our annotated data, we show that text containing BPMs tends to be more emotionally charged, even when the BPM is not explicitly used to describe a physical reaction to the emotion in the text. Finally, we discover a strong and statistically significant correlation between body-related language and a variety of poorer health outcomes. In sum, we argue that investigating the role of body-part related words in language can open up valuable avenues of future research at the intersection of NLP, the affective sciences, and the study of human wellbeing.
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