I am gullible and loving. |
`Loving' here is an interesting case. At one level it obviously makes some reference to the writer's emotions. And yet, of course, there is no actual reference to a specific emotional response on her part. Rather she speaks of a general quality she possesses and that quality (of being loving) is one which is typically associated with a positive ethical assessment. Thus to describe someone as `a loving mother' is judge their behaviour in normative terms. I would therefore probably classify `loving' as more a value of Judgement than of Affect (though it is, obviously, one which is based in emotion.) |
As a child Marshall was never spanked and I never raised my voice to him. |
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The real problem is not that he had a hard time |
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but that he resents I sheltered him so much from the real world. |
non-authorial negative Affect |
When he got a job as a chef, who taught him to cook? Me. When he fell out with his friends, who resolved it? Me. |
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I am guilty of loving my son too much. |
authorial Affect (positive emotion, but negative self-evaluation of writer as emoter) |
There is nothing I can do now to stop him belittling me. But one day he will be my Marshall again. When he grows up |
