Language is a source of delivering your thoughts and opinions along with emotions. While speaking, you can easily accomplish the purpose of delivering emotions to your viewers or listeners. However, in writings, you must choose certain words that can do this job of delivering emotions for you. You must engage your audience well enough by involving emotions in your script. You can represent your thoughts effectively when they carry emotions. To communicate emotions through writing, the type of language we use is emotive language. Till now, you should have a pretty much good idea of this kind of language. Let us define emotive language properly.
- The use of certain words to provoke emotions and create an emotional impact is termed as emotive language.
You can also say it an emotional language as it influences the readers emotionally.
Emotive language is a great medium to create a connection with your audience either by writings or verbally. However, you should be very cautious and careful while choosing the words to create an emotional impact through emotive language. The chosen words must deliver the emotions in a best way and you should get maximum benefit from it. The main aim of emotive language is to convince the reader to have the same viewpoint as that of the writer. Your words are more likely to create an impact on the audience if they contain emotions.
What is Emotive Language?
Emotive language is used when your intention is to affect the audience emotionally. It can influence the way the audience react. However, emotive language can be utilized in several ways. Mostly this type of language is used in English literature. Apart from literature, it is used in daily life conversations as well. Every one of us have watched news on television. News channels get the attention of audience by using emotive language in their headlines. For example, here is a headline “The robbers brutally murdered the poor victim after looting his all belongings”. Now in this sentence, the words ‘brutally’, ‘murdered’, ‘poor victim’ are used to add emotions and to make the readers feel the pain. A non-emotive version of same sentence will be “The robbers killed a man after looting him”. This sentence only gives us information about an incidence happened. Now it should be pretty much clear to you that how we use emotive language.
Moreover, it can be effectively used in speeches or debates where the main aim is to convey your thoughts with emotions to the audience. The public addresses delivered by leaders can cause maximum influence on people’s mind through emotive language. Advertisements widely use emotive language to attract the viewers. In literature such as poems and novels, emotive language is used to engage readers and make them feel real. Slogans also use emotive language as their purpose is convey the message in few words. The non-fiction writing also contains emotive language. This includes journals, biographies, news articles, opinions etc.
There are some words that carry a certain weight in a sense that they can’t be ignored and hit hard to the readers or viewers. These words are used as adjectives, abstract nouns, verbs in the sentences to create emotive language. Some examples are,
Examples of Emotive Sentences
1) The innocent girl was sentenced to two years of jail by the biased court.
In this sentence, the words ‘innocent’ and ‘biased’ are used as emotive language to insert emotions in the event happened.
2) The adorable model starred tonight’s show with her graceful attire.
In this sentence, the words ‘adorable’, ‘starred’ and ‘graceful’ are used as emotive language.
3) The giant truck viciously crushed down the poor biker.
In this sentence, the words ‘giant’, ‘viciously’ and ‘poor’ are used as emotive language.