Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers

A Neuropragmatic Perspective
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-47634-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 4498 g

Reihe: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series

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 approach that takes into account contextual information and hence goes beyond the reductionist approach to affective language that has dominated contemporary research. Owing to this pragmatic approach, the book presents brand new findings in the field of bilingualism and affect and offers the first neurocognitive interpretation of findings reported in clinical and introspective studies in bilingualism. This not only represents an invaluable contribution to the literature, but may also constitute a breakthrough in the investigation of the worldwide phenomenon of bilingualism.



Beginning with a thorough review of the history and current state of affective research and its relation to language, spanning philosophical, psychological, neuroscientific, and linguistic perspectives, the volume then proceeds to explore affect manifestation using neuropragmatic methods in monolingual and bilingual individuals. In doing so, it brings together findings from clinical and introspective studies in bilingualism with cognitive, psychophysiological and neuroimaging paradigms. By combining conceptual understanding and methodological expertise from many disciplines, this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the dynamic interactions between contextual and affective information in the language domain. Thus, Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers: A Neuropragmatic Perspective fosters a pragmatic approach to research on affective language processing in monolingual and bilingual population, one that builds bridges across disciplines and sparks important new questions in the cognitive neuroscience of bi- and multilingualism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jo¿czyk, Rafa¿

Jonczyk, Rafal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Affect: Theory and research by Rafal Jonczyk.- Chapter 2. Affect-language interface: A reductionist approach.- Chapter 3. Affect-language interface: A pragmatic perspective.- Chapter 4. Affect-language interactions in non-native speakers.- Chapter 5. Affective word processing in native and non-native English speakers: A neuropragmatic perspective.- Chapter 6. Processing of affective meaning in native and non-native language: Why context matters.- Chapter 7. Affective (dis)embodiment in non-native language.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Rafal Jonczyk received his PhD from Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He is currently based at the Language and Communication Laboratory (LCL), Poznan, Poland.