Current emotion research in the language sciences

Majid, Asifa

doi:10.1177/1754073912445827

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Current emotion research in the language sciences

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Majid, Asifa
Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;
Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Majid, A. (2012). Current emotion research in the language sciences. Emotion Review, 4, 432-443. doi:10.1177/1754073912445827.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-479F-E

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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.