What is emotive language?

Answer 1

Where do gut level emotions come from? How do words and emotions fit together? When did this all start? Let's consider how our ancestors lived in nature without verbal language. Our ancient hominid ancestors lived and traveled in tribes for millions of years. They lived off the land, eating well and fattening up when food was abundant. But more often than not, they subsisted on too little food. Our body chemistry retains the legacy of those very conditions. Good times and bad times each produce particular hormones in our blood stream and the emotional responses induced by those hormones. In other words, hunger is one of three primary animal needs at the root of our emotional language--security and reproduction are the other two. In the last decades, doctors and dieticians have learned how body chemistry works during food digestion. During good times, when food is abundant, insulin is released into our bloodstream. Insulin tells tissue cells they should absorb protein and sugar. The absorption process replenishes those cells, while at the same time balancing blood-sugar levels. But insulin also tells the liver when blood sugar becomes too high. At that point, the body has enough nutrition to satisfy its current needs, so it begins packing extra sugar and nutrients away as fat for future use. On the other side of this process, during lean times, the hormone, glucagon, mobilizes nutrients. This happens when the body has too little nutrition and needs to draw upon its stored fats for energy and its stored proteins as building materials. Glucagon also directs the liver to release sugar, thereby raising blood sugar levels that are appropriate for the brain. Over millions of years our bodies adapted to both abundant and lean times by either storing extra nutrients in cell tissue during times of plenty, or drawing upon those stored nutrients during famine. But there were consequences far beyond nutrition; our emotional lives were shaped by the internal stresses these hormonal chemistries produced. Remember, there was no verbal language, so keeping track of the outside world depended on changes of internal body chemistry. There was an ancient set of chemical and emotional signals-a language, if you will-that guided each individual's actions as well as their social interactions. Their internal instincts were finely tuned to the world around them. Today, emotions and body chemistry show up in our most mundane thoughts. There is a huge connection between emotions and conversation. In fact, there are direct connections between the ancient emotional language of our nonverbal ancestors and the specific word choices we make to express our thoughts. As we identify pieces of our ancient emotional language, we begin to distinguish corresponding features in our verbal language. Particular words indicate specific feelings are being expressed.

Answer 2

creates a strong emotional response from the reader :-)