The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language
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Colwyn Trevarthen
Abstract
Human beings, like other highly social animals, cooperate by signaling motives and feelings, sharing intentions and interests. Language extends this communication, giving symbolic significance to intricate sequences of expressive movement that specify changing awareness of the environment, propose contexts for future enterprises, and recall past experiences, identifying objects for vital use or the creation of arts and technologies. All these elaborated ways of sharing consciousness have roots in intersubjective relations that depend on common aesthetic and moral emotions. Research on communication with infants and developments before first words reveals the primary affective emotions in all forms of text, whether for enhancing relationships, celebrating pleasures of traditional arts, or extending formal knowledge of social and technical skills and beliefs.
Abstract
Human beings, like other highly social animals, cooperate by signaling motives and feelings, sharing intentions and interests. Language extends this communication, giving symbolic significance to intricate sequences of expressive movement that specify changing awareness of the environment, propose contexts for future enterprises, and recall past experiences, identifying objects for vital use or the creation of arts and technologies. All these elaborated ways of sharing consciousness have roots in intersubjective relations that depend on common aesthetic and moral emotions. Research on communication with infants and developments before first words reveals the primary affective emotions in all forms of text, whether for enhancing relationships, celebrating pleasures of traditional arts, or extending formal knowledge of social and technical skills and beliefs.
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
