Research on the relationship between language and emotion - A descriptive overview
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Ulrike M. Lüdtke
Abstract
The basic relationship between language and emotion is more and more present in research over the last decades. This chapter presents the field of research in a historical and current overview to open up new perspectives for future research. For this purpose, the authors analyse 500 studies on language and emotion published over the last hundred years. Furthermore, the sub-study analysis examines the methodology of 50 empirical studies on language acquisition in detail. Results hint at disciplinary differences in the choice of methods and subjects. There is a lack of subjects with deviant developmental states and in at-risk lifeworlds. This overview illustrates the necessity of approaches which deal in a complex way with both sides of the relationship between emotion and language.
Abstract
The basic relationship between language and emotion is more and more present in research over the last decades. This chapter presents the field of research in a historical and current overview to open up new perspectives for future research. For this purpose, the authors analyse 500 studies on language and emotion published over the last hundred years. Furthermore, the sub-study analysis examines the methodology of 50 empirical studies on language acquisition in detail. Results hint at disciplinary differences in the choice of methods and subjects. There is a lack of subjects with deviant developmental states and in at-risk lifeworlds. This overview illustrates the necessity of approaches which deal in a complex way with both sides of the relationship between emotion and language.
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
