Emotional Words in Farsi Dictionaries

This research aimed at exploring the emotionalwords,their pleasant/unpleasant, somat ic / non - somatic and common / uncommon rat ios in Farsi d ict ionaries (Moeen, Amid and Moaser). All the entries in these three dictionarieswere investigated by t hre e ind e p end ent r efe r e es (all pschylogists) for the ir descript ive and qualitat ive cha racte rist ics. The final judgments benefited from linguistic feedbacks produced by a specialist in this field. Using SPSS for windows, data analysis showed that frequency of the pleasant emotional words were significantly less than the unpleasant ones in all the mentioned dictionaries. Also, 03% of the emotional words appeared to have somatic component(s). Moreover, it seems that the ratio of the emotional words had reduced over the time from the past to the present. The findings will be theoretically discussed from psychological point of view.