Emotion in Language
Theory - research - application
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2015
XI, 458 pages
978-90-272-6765-8 (ISBN)
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The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language in its extremes.
Although the 'emotional turn' promised a paradigmatic shift from a rationalistic towards an emotion-integrating conceptualization of language, hardly any interdisciplinary research has focused on the interplay between emotion and language. The present book covers the wide range of work on Emotion in Language with contributions from numerous disciplines in the three areas of Theory, Research, and Application. With contributions both from well-known pioneers in the area of this topic as well as from young scientists, the book offers a broad range of perspectives from linguistics and language development to neurology, psychology and developmental neuropsychology and to the fields of philosophy and phenomenology.
Although the 'emotional turn' promised a paradigmatic shift from a rationalistic towards an emotion-integrating conceptualization of language, hardly any interdisciplinary research has focused on the interplay between emotion and language. The present book covers the wide range of work on Emotion in Language with contributions from numerous disciplines in the three areas of Theory, Research, and Application. With contributions both from well-known pioneers in the area of this topic as well as from young scientists, the book offers a broad range of perspectives from linguistics and language development to neurology, psychology and developmental neuropsychology and to the fields of philosophy and phenomenology.
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- Intro
- Emotion in Language
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Introduction: From logos to dialogue
- The language divide: The negation of pathos and mythos by logos
- The polyphonic rise of emotivity: Reinstalling the "other" side
- The emotional turn: Conceptualizing the wholeness of language
- References
- Part I. Theory
- The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language
- 1. Introduction: Affective connection and the ability to share meaningful skills
- 2. What is language before words? The puzzle of narratives with no reference to the world
- 3. First steps to the convivial art and practice of stories in words
- 4. The seductive musicality of infant communication: The vital syntax of emotional narratives
- 5. Brain development and learning how to mean with feeling: Affection, interest and the use of lang
- 6. Epilogue: The roots of language are emotional, and interpersonal
- References
- Primal emotions and cultural evolution of language: Primal affects empower words
- Overall thesis
- 1. Some critical fundamentals about the neural genesis of language
- 2. The potential social-emotional foundations of language
- 3. Hierarchical BrainMind evolution and the general-purpose neocortical substrates for language-gene
- 4. Taking the hierarchical evolutionary stratification of the brain seriously
- 5. Fleshing out the nature of our deep emotional urge to communicate with each other
- 6. Coda: On the excesses of evolutionary views of human language
- References
- Emotion on board
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Innateness and early functionality of emotion
- 2.1 About innateness
- 2.2 About early functionality
- 3. Emotion as sharing box
- 4. Early negative responses to blank or non-contingent faces
- 5. The emotional effect of maternal depression
- 6. Discrimination of facial expressions and encoding
- 7. Encoding facial expressions
- 8. Encoding emotion in human and non-human medium
- 9. Emotion in autism
- 10. Emotional sharing in autism during live scenarios
- 10.1 Synchronic imitation scenario
- 10.2 Revisited still face scenario
- 11. Conclusion
- References
- The origins of emotion and language from the perspective of developmental neuropsychology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brain asymmetries exist at many levels of description
- 3. Functional independence of the hemispheres increases with evolution
- 4. Attentional asymmetry in birds and animals
- 5. Attentional asymmetry in humans
- 6. Consequences of attentional differences
- 7. The origins of language
- 8. Communication without language
- 9. Thought without language
- 10. Metaphor
- 11. Language rooted in the body
- 12. The embodied self and the right hemisphere of the brain
- References
- Language and emotion in Merleau-Ponty
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The mouth: Sexuality and metaphysics
- 3. Movement in speech: Gesture and expression
- 4. The child in language: Risk and play
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Enkinaesthetic polyphony: The underpinning for first-order languaging
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Enkinaesthesia: The primacy of affective being-with
- 3. First-order languaging and enkinaesthetics
- 4. The languaging of living agents
- 5. First-order languaging, emotion inducers and feelings as evaluators
- 6. Linguistics and languaging
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Emotion in language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Where do emotions show up in language?
- 3. Implications for approaching language, emotion, cognition and their interplay
- 3.1 Language in relation to affectivity and emotion
- 3.2 Affectivity and emotion in relation to cognition
- 3.3 Affectivity, emotion, cognition and language - a multilayered system
- References
- Language and emotion: The cognitive linguistic perspective
- 1. Emotions and their relevance to cognitive science: The emotive turn in cognitive linguistics
- 2. Cognitive linguistics and emotion research: Main questions and basic topics
- 2.1 The theoretical and methodological framework of the Critical Cognitive Linguistics approach
- 2.2 The relationship of language and emotion
- 3. The textual dimension of emotion: The emotive potential of texts
- 3.1 Referring to emotions and expressing attitudes
- 3.2 Inferring emotive information from text: The relevance of e-implicatures
- 4. Summary
- References
- Prosodic clustering in speech: From emotional to semantic processes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How to define emotions? From psychology to linguistics
- 3. Linguistic vs. paralinguistic prosody: Calling the dichotomy into question
- 4. Expression of emotions, at the heart of languages, at the heart of grammar: Evidence for intonosy
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Embodied language and the process of language learning and teaching
- 1. The embodied language
- 2. Approaches in language teaching
- 3. Embodiment and implications for language teaching
- References
- Part II. Research
- Research on the relationship between language and emotion - A descriptive overview
- 1. Evidence of the "emotional turn"
- 2. Research question and aim
- 3. Method
- 3.1 Basic research design
- 3.2 Criteria selection
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Results of the main study
- 4.2 Results of the sub-study
- 5. Discussion
- 5.1 Discussion of main study results
- 5.2 Discussion of sub-study results
- 6. Outlook
- References
- Word valence and its effects
- 1. "Without emotion no language"
- 2. Emotion-laden words
- 2.1 The measurement of valence
- 2.2 Difference in valence in L2 and L2
- 2.3 Valence and processing
- 3. Intensifiers
- 4. Emotive expressivity in phonology and grammar
- 5. Rounding off
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- The occurrence of idioms in the emotion lexicon of children
- 1. Idioms in the emotion lexicon
- 1.1 Idioms in language acquisition
- 1.2 The emotion lexicon of children
- 2. The occurrence of idioms in the emotion lexicon of children
- 2.1 Study 1: Production task
- 2.2 Study 2: Perception task
- 3. Summary and discussion
- References
- "Without language, everything is chaos and confusion": Corporal-emotional linguistic experience an
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aharon Appelfeld: The story of a life
- 3. Linguistic experience
- 4. The heteroglossic linguistic repertoire
- 5. Chronotopic layers
- 6. The bodily-emotional dimension of the repertoire - a phenomenological perspective
- 7. Expanding the repertoire concept from a poststructuralist perspective
- 8. Ways out of the language crisis
- 9. The linguistic repertoire as a space of potentiality - summary and outlook
- References
- Giving horror a name: Verbal manifestations of despair, fear and anxiety in texts of Holocau
- 1. A research desideratum concerning Holocaust literature
- 2. Emotion and language in borderline situations within the theoretical background of cognitive ling
- 3. The verbalization of despair in Victor Klemperer's diaries
- 4. Summary and further perspectives
- References
- Mediated emotions: Emotivity in the age of information and communication technologies
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dominant research directions
- 2.1 Major distinctions
- 2.2 CMC and F2F
- 3. Emotive characteristics of computer-mediated communication
- 3.1 Typographic, orthographic, lexical and syntactical peculiarities of CMC
- 3.2 Emoticons
- 3.3 Emotive profiles of selected communication forms
- 3.4 Multimodal emotionality
- 3.5 Communicative norms
- 4. Relationships and identity online
- 4.1 Managing the virtual self
- 4.2 Mediated relationships
- 4.3 Virtual communities
- 5. Outlook and conclusion
- References
- Silences as a linguistic strategy: Remarks on the role of the unsaid in romantic relationships on t
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Motivations for silences within romantic discourses
- 3. Versions of silences
- 3.1 Discourse-motivating silences
- 3.2 Protective silences
- 3.3 Alluding silences
- 3.4 Illusive silences
- 4. Summary
- References
- Part III. Application
- Gradients of plasticity: Language and emotion in children with unilateral perinatal stroke
- 1. Background and introduction
- 1.1 Typical emergence of language and emotion
- 2. Children with perinatal stroke
- 2.1 Language emergence in children with perinatal stroke
- 2.2 Emotional processing in infants with perinatal stroke
- 2.3 Language processing in school-aged children
- 2.4 Language processing in school-aged children with perinatal stroke
- 2.5 Emotion processing in school-aged children with perinatal stroke
- 3. Discussion and conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Mood, aphasia, and affective language comprehension
- 1. Introduction to emotion, cognition and language
- 2. Mood congruent language comprehension (and embodiment)
- 2.1 Faster access to mood congruent information in predictive inferences
- 2.2 Deeper elaboration or faster access for reading mood congruent text
- 2.3 General discussion of mood congruency effects for emotion inferences
- 3. Hemispheric differences for inferring emotion from language
- 3.1 Cortical structures and hemispheric differences of emotion processing
- 3.2 Influence of neurological lesions on emotional text inferences
- 3.3 Discussion
- 4. Communicating emotion and alignment in aphasia
- References
- What words can't tell: Emotion and connection between "borderline" mothers and infants
- Introduction
- 1. Timing, anticipation and matching in parent-infant interaction
- 2. Emotional contours and qualities in the voices of mothers
- 3. The musical basis of meaning and belonging in social engagement
- 4. The voice in the body: Remarks on the locus of emotion in infancy
- 5. Borderline Personality Disorder (BDP): Instability in affect regulation and disturbed relatedness
- 6. Extreme variation and void in the interactions between BPD mothers and infant
- 7. Implications for the study of emotion in language
- References
- Affective and internal state language in high-functioning autism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. High functioning autism: A special case of emotion processing and theory of mind
- 2.1 Emotion in high functioning autism
- 2.2 Theory of mind in high functioning autism
- 3. Internal state language in HFA
- 4. Empirical study on emotion word use in high functioning autism
- 4.1 Participants
- 4.2 Method
- 4.3 Results
- 5. Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Epilogue: Emotion in language can overcome exclusion from meaning
- What can an interdisciplinary science of emotion in live communication, with or without words, offe
- That emotional meaning is needed to make sense of spoken experience
- Exploring the sociosphere of meaning, and its relation to individual initiatives and their affective
- References
- Index
