ABSTRACT
On what basis is this secondary use derived from the primary one in which emotional terms refer to experienced emotions? As was explained earlier, sometimes we can identify others’ emotions in their behavior, bodily attitudes, and facial expressions, because these can be symptomatic of the inner, affective states they betray. The flavor of expressiveness lingers, however, when relevantly similar behaviors and bodily bearings occur in the absence of the appropriate feeling or emotion. In that case, the expressiveness attaches to the character of the behavior’s appearance, though no felt emotion is expressed or betrayed. The face of a basset hound looks the way a person’s face would look if that person were sad and showing it.
