ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at corpus examples of how the word “empathy” is used in English from the perspective of representation or, in systemic functional terms, ideational meaning. This book is a study of an individual word, i.e. a noun: for this reason, the chapter looks at experiential patterns of Transitivity but also, and somehow more closely, at dependency and logico-semantics at group level, in line with systemic functional grammatical approaches. Its main focus is on the ideational role the word “empathy” plays in the most frequent noun groups identified in English Web 2020 as containing it.
