Hoemann and colleagues recast emotion as situated meaning-making and ask how language can reveal the architecture of that process without reducing it to explicit emotion labels. Their conceptual innovation is to organise emotional meaning around three linguistic dimensions: attention, construal and appraisal. What becomes salient, from which conceptual vantage point events are viewed, and how circumstances are evaluated together provide a higher-dimensional account of emotion than categorical naming alone. The methodological contribution lies in joining discursive psychology with socio-, cognitive and computational linguistics, treating naturally occurring language as a rich trace of situated psychological organisation. Language is not merely a report about emotion; it participates in producing the interpretive relation between person and circumstance. This framework bridges qualitative concerns with scalable computational analysis, opening a route between close reading and large corpora without assuming that quantification must strip away context. The paper therefore advances a dynamic, relational model of emotional meaning capable of moving between discourse, culture and data-intensive research.
