Language, Expressivity and Cognition

Mikołaj Deckert editor Piotr Pezik editor Raffaele Zago editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:23rd Feb '23

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Explores a variety of data types, discourses, languages and cultures to offer a comprehensive account of how language uncovers the user’s emotions and serves as a powerful tool to trigger emotional responses.

Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional ‘temperature’ of a variety of contemporary discourses. Adopting a number of methodological angles, both qualitative and quantitative, the chapters present insights from cognitive linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as those resulting from the combination of these approaches. Using a wide variety of data types, from song lyrics and TV series to Twitter posts and political speeches, and through the analysis of a range of languages, including Arabic, English, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, and Turkish, the book offers a panoramic view of the multi-faceted interaction between language, expressivity and cognition.

A welcome addition to linguistic emotion research, with diverse and multi-methodological studies on a range of languages and different data types, including on topics of high social relevance. -- Monika Bednarek, University of Sydney, Australia

ISBN: 9781350332867

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256 pages