mood
Overview page. Subjects: Psychology — Medicine and Health.
Syn: affect (n). The subjective feelings or emotional state of an individual, e.g., happy or sad. An individual's mood can profoundly influence sensory perception, intellectual function,...
Mood
in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
January 2003; p ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Linguistics. 219 words.
Mood indicates what the speaker is doing with a proposition in a particular discourse situation. This includes the status of
mood
in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
January 2016; p ublished online March 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Philosophy. 99 words.
1. In the theory of the *syllogism the valid forms with each figure are called the moods of that
mood
in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
January 2008; p ublished online January 2008 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Philosophy. 99 words.
1. In the theory of the *syllogism the valid forms with each figure are called the moods of that
Mood
in The Oxford Companion to the English Language
May 2018; p ublished online May 2018 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History of English. 134 words.
In traditional grammar, a term for a type of finite clause. Languages vary in terms of the number of moods that are grammatically expressed in the language. Each type generally...
mood
Overview page. Subjects: Philosophy.
Mood
January 2018; p ublished online December 2017 .
Book. Subjects: Semantics; Linguistics. 304 pages.
The category of mood is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to features of a sentence’s form (or a class...
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Mood
in The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
June 2016; p ublished online August 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: Historical and Diachronic Linguistics. 5951 words.
The main goal of this chapter is to provide a descriptive and critical overview of the some of the most striking and interesting problems and questions related to mood in Romance, cover...
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subjunctive mood
in Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
January 2008; p ublished online January 2008 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 617 words.
1 The subjunctive mood, one of the great shifting sands of English grammar, is a verbal form or mood expressing
Sentence mood
in Use-Conditional Meaning
May 2015; p ublished online September 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Semantics; Linguistics. 15674 words.
Sentence mood is understood as the semantic correlate of syntactic sentence types. The question is how the sentential content and mood interact to yield a sentence’s overall content. This...
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subjunctive mood
in Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage
January 2016; p ublished online September 2015 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 620 words.
1 The subjunctive mood, one of the great survivors of an earlier state of English grammar, is a verbal form
Mood Six
in Encyclopedia of Popular Music
January 2006; p ublished online January 2009 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 417 words.
Mood Six were central to the short-lived UK psychedelic revival that swept London’s West End in the early 80s, and
Delusional Mood
in The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology
July 2019; p ublished online March 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Philosophy of Mind. 5109 words.
This article examines the clinical concept of delusional atmosphere or mood, which denotes a predelusional state that may precede the formation of primary delusion in schizophrenia....
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Verbal mood
in Mood
January 2018; p ublished online December 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Semantics; Linguistics. 33164 words.
Verbal mood is a linguistic category which marks how a clause is used in the computation of subsentential modal meaning. Most prominently exemplified by indicative and subjunctive verb...
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Matching Moods
in Mapping the Left Periphery
January 2011; p ublished online May 2011 .
Chapter. Subjects: Grammar, Syntax and Morphology. 12645 words.
Salentino and Southern Calabrian have a two complementiser system (declarative and subjunctive) that has been recently analysed in terms of Rizzi’s (1997) split CP framework. Yet, only...
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Mood Six
Overview page. Subjects: Music.
Mood Six were central to the short-lived UK psychedelic revival that swept London’s West End in the early 80s, and had evolved from various units with mod leanings. Drummer Simon ...
Mood Alternations
in The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
July 2016; p ublished online November 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition. 8732 words.
This chapter provides an overview of the development of mood in child language. The chapter begins with a discussion of the various overlapping terms used in the field: mood, modality,...
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subjunctive mood
in Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
January 2015; p ublished online June 2015 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 1196 words.
The subjunctive mood is one of the great survivors of an earlier state of English grammar. Its complexity over the centuries is such that the standard reference work on historical English...
Sentence mood
in Mood
January 2018; p ublished online December 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Semantics; Linguistics. 52654 words.
Sentence mood is the linguistic category which marks the fundamental conversational function, or “sentential force,” of a sentence. Exemplified by the universal types of declarative,...
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mood / ~s n
in The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
March 2016; p ublished online October 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Shakespeare Studies and Criticism. 33 words.
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sp mood9, moode10 / moodes2, moods2
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Mood and Ethics
in Screen Stories
June 2018; p ublished online May 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. 6996 words.
Our understanding of the moral psychology of screen stories is incomplete and underdeveloped unless we examine the ethical significance of moods, which are quite different than emotions....
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