Emotions can be considered specific judgements of meaning, for their basic dimension, i. e. the dimension of the hedonic tone is almost identical with the dimension of evaluation, which is usually denoted as one of the most important meaning dimensions. The formation of a conceptual connection betweenfeelings and the linguistically expressive meaning directs the researchof emotions from their organic basis and primary drive process to the secondary cognitive-linguistic ones. Therefore one could denote emotions as a special, rudimentary type of cognition. A steady cognitive-afective interaction can namely be noticed only in the preverbal phase of the subject'sdevelopment.
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