Embodied language and the process of language learning and teaching
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Giovanni Buccino
Abstract
This chapter consists of three main parts: in the first part we report very briefly the results of empirical studies supporting an embodied view of language processing including emotional language. In the second part we report about recent approaches to language learning and teaching with the purpose to underline how these approaches have tried to include or be supported by empirical data coming from neuroscience. The focus is on the relation between language learning and teaching, and emotions. Finally, in the third part we forward some general implications for language teaching based on the embodied approach to language processing. In our view experience is a prerequisite for any language competence where experience is related to our capacity to interact with the world and with other people, thus involving relational and emotional competences. In this perspective also relational and emotional competences influence language acquisition processes.
Abstract
This chapter consists of three main parts: in the first part we report very briefly the results of empirical studies supporting an embodied view of language processing including emotional language. In the second part we report about recent approaches to language learning and teaching with the purpose to underline how these approaches have tried to include or be supported by empirical data coming from neuroscience. The focus is on the relation between language learning and teaching, and emotions. Finally, in the third part we forward some general implications for language teaching based on the embodied approach to language processing. In our view experience is a prerequisite for any language competence where experience is related to our capacity to interact with the world and with other people, thus involving relational and emotional competences. In this perspective also relational and emotional competences influence language acquisition processes.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Theory
- The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language 3
- Primal emotions and cultural evolution of language: 27
- Emotion on board 49
- The origins of emotion and language from the perspective of developmental neuropsychology 69
- Language and emotion in Merleau-Ponty 99
- Enkinaesthetic polyphony: 113
- Emotion in language 135
- Language and emotion 157
- Prosodic clustering in speech: From emotional to semantic processes 175
- Embodied language and the process of language learning and teaching 191
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Research
- Research on the relationship between language and emotion - A descriptive overview 211
- Word valence and its effects 241
- The occurrence of idioms in the emotion lexicon of children 257
- "Without language, everything is chaos and confusion ..." 273
- Giving horror a name 289
- Mediated emotions 305
- Silences as a linguistic strategy Remarks on the role of the unsaid in romantic relationships on the internet 325
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Application
- Gradients of plasticity 343
- Mood, aphasia, and affective language comprehension 367
- What words can’t tell: 399
- Affective and internal state language in high-functioning autism 421
- Epilogue 445
- Index 453
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Theory
- The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language 3
- Primal emotions and cultural evolution of language: 27
- Emotion on board 49
- The origins of emotion and language from the perspective of developmental neuropsychology 69
- Language and emotion in Merleau-Ponty 99
- Enkinaesthetic polyphony: 113
- Emotion in language 135
- Language and emotion 157
- Prosodic clustering in speech: From emotional to semantic processes 175
- Embodied language and the process of language learning and teaching 191
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Research
- Research on the relationship between language and emotion - A descriptive overview 211
- Word valence and its effects 241
- The occurrence of idioms in the emotion lexicon of children 257
- "Without language, everything is chaos and confusion ..." 273
- Giving horror a name 289
- Mediated emotions 305
- Silences as a linguistic strategy Remarks on the role of the unsaid in romantic relationships on the internet 325
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Application
- Gradients of plasticity 343
- Mood, aphasia, and affective language comprehension 367
- What words can’t tell: 399
- Affective and internal state language in high-functioning autism 421
- Epilogue 445
- Index 453
