Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers
This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approa
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Rafał Jończyk
Affect-Language Interactions in Native and NonNative English Speakers A Neuropragmatic Perspective
The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series
Series Editors Roberto R. Heredia Anna B. Cieślicka
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13841
Rafał Jończyk
Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers A Neuropragmatic Perspective
Rafał Jończyk Faculty of English Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland
The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series ISBN 978-3-319-47634-6 ISBN 978-3-319-47635-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47635-3
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Preface
Communication is an arena of expression, exchange, and sharing of people’s thoughts, opinions, beliefs, feelings, or attitudes. Two essential, interacting and integral expressive agents in communication are affect (e.g. emotions, attitudes, beliefs, moods) and language (its verbal and non-verbal manifestation). The relationship between affect and language is highly reciprocal. Affect finds an outlet on all levels of non-verbal (e.g. gestures, body posture, facial expression) as well as verbal (e.g. syntax, semantics, pragmatics) language. In turn, language has the capacity to modify people’s affective states, e.g. by means of compliments, insults, or poetry. Research on affect-language interactions in native speakers supports the special role of affective meaning in language comprehension. Affective words and sentences attract more attention (Pratto & John, 1991; Wentura, Rothermund & Bak, 2000), e
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