Affect

Affect may refer to:

See also

Affect (company)

Affect Co., Ltd. (株式会社 アフェクト) was a video game development company that was active in that industry from 1990 to 2008, primarily releasing games in Japan through other publishers.One of the first products developed by the company was a highly successful baseball simulator, Nolan Ryan's Baseball. After 2008, Affect transitioned to producing web applications.

List of games and software

Affect (linguistics)

Affect, in linguistics, is attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance. Affects such as sarcasm, contempt, dismissal, distaste, disgust, disbelief, exasperation, boredom, anger, joy, respect or disrespect, sympathy, pity, gratitude, wonder, admiration, humility, and awe are frequently conveyed through paralinguistic mechanisms such as intonation, facial expression, and gesture, and thus require recourse to punctuation or emoticons when reduced to writing, but there are grammatical and lexical expressions of affect as well, such as pejorative and approbative or laudative expressions or inflections, adversative forms, honorific and deferential language, interrogatives and tag questions, and some types of evidentiality.

Lexical affect

Lexical choices may frame speaker affect. Examples are slender (positive affect) vs. scrawny (negative affect), thrifty (positive) vs. stingy (negative), freedom fighter (positive) vs. terrorist (negative), etc.

Grammatical affect