Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction: From Logos to Dialogue (by Ludtke, Ulrike M.); 2. Theory; 3. The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language (by Trevarthen, Colwyn); 4. Primal emotions and cultural evolution of language:: Primal affects empower words (by Panksepp, Jaak); 5. Emotion on board (by Nadel, Jacqueline); 6. The origins of emotion and language from the perspective of developmental neuropsychology (by McGilchrist, Iain); 7. Language and emotion in Merleau-Ponty (by Bonsdorff, Pauline von); 8. Enkinaesthetic polyphony:: The underpinning for first-order languaging (by Stuart, Susan); 9. Emotion in language (by Klann-Delius, Gisela); 10. Language and emotion: The cognitive linguistic perspective (by Schwarz-Friesel, Monika); 11. Prosodic clustering in speech: From emotional to semantic processes (by Lacheret-Dujour, Anne); 12. Embodied language and the process of language learning and teaching (by Buccino, Giovanni); 13. Research; 14. Research on the relationship between language and emotion - A descriptive overview (by Ludtke, Ulrike M.); 15. Word valence and its effects (by Foolen, Ad); 16. The occurrence of idioms in the emotion lexicon of children (by Glaznieks, Aivars); 17. "Without language, everything is chaos and confusion ...": Corporal-emotional linguistic experience and the linguistic repertoire (by Busch, Brigitta); 18. Giving horror a name: Verbal manifestations of despair, fear and anxiety in texts of Holocaust victims and survivors (by Schwarz-Friesel, Monika); 19. Mediated emotions: Emotivity in the age of information and communication technologies (by Ortner, Heike); 20. Silences as a linguistic strategy Remarks on the role of the unsaid in romantic relationships on the internet (by Marx, Konstanze); 21. Application; 22. Gradients of plasticity: Language and emotion in children with unilateral perinatal stroke (by Polse, Lara); 23. Mood, aphasia, and affective language comprehension (by Hielscher-Fastabend, Martina); 24. What words can't tell:: Emotion and connection between 'borderline' mothers and infants (by Gratier, Maya); 25. Affective and internal state language in high-functioning autism (by Levy, Judith); 26. Epilogue: Emotion in language can overcome exclusion from meaning (by Frank, Bodo); 27. Index
