Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences
- 17 July 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Emotion Review
- Vol. 4 (4), 432-443
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073912445827
Abstract
When researchers think about the interaction between language and emotion, they typically focus on descriptive emotion words. This review demonstrates that emotion can interact with language at many levels of structure, from the sound patterns of a language to its lexicon and grammar, and beyond to how it appears in conversation and discourse. Findings are considered from diverse subfields across the language sciences, including cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and conversation analysis. Taken together, it is clear that emotional expression is finely tuned to language-specific structures. Future emotion research can better exploit cross-linguistic variation to unravel possible universal principles operating between language and emotion.Keywords
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