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Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 10] 2015
► pp. 3–26

The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language

Human beings, like other highly social animals, cooperate by signaling motives and feelings, sharing intentions and interests. Language extends this communication, giving symbolic significance to intricate sequences of expressive movement that specify changing awareness of the environment, propose contexts for future enterprises, and recall past experiences, identifying objects for vital use or the creation of arts and technologies. All these elaborated ways of sharing consciousness have roots in intersubjective relations that depend on common aesthetic and moral emotions. Research on communication with infants and developments before first words reveals the primary affective emotions in all forms of text, whether for enhancing relationships, celebrating pleasures of traditional arts, or extending formal knowledge of social and technical skills and beliefs.
Keywords: first words, infant communication, learned meanings, primary feelings, shared knowledge
Published online: 16 December 2015
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