The Janus-Face of Language: Where Are the Emotions in Words and the Words in Emotions?

• Main Author: Peter Walla (auth)
• Other Authors: Andreas J. Fallgatter (auth), Cornelia Herbert (auth), Georg Northoff (auth), Thomas Ethofer (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; language as context; self-reference; mood; social cognition; neuronal and behavioral mechanisms of emotional word processing; embodiment; poetic aesthetics; emotion and language; multilingualism
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<p>Language has long been considered independent from emotions. In the last few years however research has accumulated empirical evidence against this theoretical belief of a purely cognitive-based foundation of language. In particular, through research on emotional word processing it has been...