[Corpora-List] Looking for a corpus of 'value' words

[Gerald Nelson]

Dear All,

I'm trying to find a corpus of 'value' words. By this I mean those
"thicker" words (following Clifford Geertz, Gilbert Ryle, and Bernard
Williams) that both describe and convey values that are associated
with the thing described.

According to this definition, the class of 'value' words would include:

beauty, courage, love, joy, sorrow, honour, dignity, freedom, anger,
shame, humility, pride, egoism, mortality, nature,
evasion, sympathy, domination, attention, innocence and experience.

Has anyone done a corpus of such words, or similar work on 'value' words?

I'll be pleased to post a summary of responses.


Gerald Nelson

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