Emotion Archive

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Lecture by Jay Lemke, February 8, 2008

Meaning and Feeling: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Affect by Jay Lemke, Professor in the School of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of Michigan How does language make us feel?  Both when we use a language, and when we respond to the language used by others?  What part of meaning is felt, and what…

Lecture by Daniel Shanahan, September 15, 2006

Language, Feeling, and the Brain: A Pribram-Based Model by Daniel Shanahan, Professor of Communications, Humanities Faculty, Charles University in Prague Linguistic theory since the Cognitive Revolution has followed one of the premises of that revolution by largely sidelining the issue of emotions and concentrating on those aspects of language which are more strictly cognitive. However,…

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“I won’t talk about this here in America:” Sociocultural Context of Korean English Language Learners’ Emotion Speech in English

This article examines the relationship between language and emotion, especially drawing attention to the experiences and perspectives of second language (SL) learners. Informed by the sociocultural perspective on the construction of emotion and its representation, this study highlights the intertwined relationship among emotions, cultural contexts, perceived identities, and languages...

The “Gift”: Synesthesia in Translingual Texts

This interdisciplinary article explores the relationship between multilingualism and synesthesia (neuro-psychological blend of senses). In the absence of research in any of the related fields, the author (a multilingual, a L2 scholar, a writer, and a synesthete all at once) views synesthesia through the lens of “translingual texts” ...