Linguistic empathy

Linguistic empathy in theoretical linguistics is the 'point of view' in an anaphoric utterance by which a participant is bound with or in the event or state that he/she describes in that sentence. Linguistic empathy in theoretical linguistics is the 'point of view' in an anaphoric utterance by which a participant is bound with or in the event or state that he/she describes in that sentence. An example is found with the Japanese verbs yaru and kureru. These both share the same essential meaning and case frame. But they differ in that yaru expresses when the action is looked at from the point of view of the referent of the subject or the neutral (objective) point of view, whereas kureru is used when the event is described from the point of view of the referent of the dative object. While present in many languages including English it is particularly prominent in some such as Japanese. The concept has no connection with empathy in terms of attributing mental states to others or sympathizing with their situation.