Language and Emotion: Introduction to the Special Issue

Overview

Journal Affect Sci

Publisher Springer

Date 2021 May 31

PMID 34056621

Citations 7

Authors

Kristen A Lindquist

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Abstract

What is the relationship between language and emotion? The work that fills the pages of this special issue draws from interdisciplinary domains to weigh in on the relationship between language and emotion in semantics, cross-linguistic experience, development, emotion perception, emotion experience and regulation, and neural representation. These important new findings chart an exciting path forward for future basic and translational work in affective science.

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