Language and Emotion. Volume 1: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Handbücher Zur Sprach- Und ... of Linguistics and Communication Science)

The Handbook consists of four major sections. Each section is introduced by a main article: - Theories of Emotion – General Aspects - Perspectives in Communication Theory, Semiotics, and Linguistics - Perspectives on Language and Emotion in Cultural Studies - Interdisciplinary and Applied Perspectives The first section presents interdisciplinary emotion theories relevant for the field of language and communication research, including the history of emotion research. The second section focuses on the full range of emotion-related aspects in linguistics, semiotics, and communication theories. The next section focuses on cultural studies and language and emotion; emotions in arts and literature, as well as research on emotion in literary studies; and media and emotion. The final section covers different domains, social practices, and applications, such as society, policy, diplomacy, economics and business communication, religion and emotional language, the domain of affective computing in human-machine interaction, and language and emotion research for language education. Overall, this Handbook represents a comprehensive overview in a rich, diverse compendium never before published in this particular domain. Contents Introduction A Emotion Research – General Aspects 1 A survey of emotion theories and their relevance to language research I Affective sciences: Theories of emotion and their linguistic relevance 2 Language and emotion in the history of linguistics 3 Emotion and language in philosophy 4 Anthropological theories of emotion 5 Linguistic theories of emotion 6 Psychological theories of emotion and their relationship with language 7 Cognitive approaches to emotion and semantics II Methods of emotion research and their linguistic relevance 8 Qualitative methods 9 Quantitative and behavioral studies 10 Quantitative and physiological measures 11 Linguistic data resources for computational emotion sensing and modeling B Perspectives in Semiotics, Linguistics, and Communication Theory 12 A survey of language-based approaches and their relation to emotions III Language history and language change 13 Historical aspects of linguistic and emotional changes 14 Expressions of emotion and linguistic change 15 Historical semantic and linguistic history of thinking IV Semiotics of emotion 16 Semiotic conceptions of emotion 17 Multimodality, facial expression, and emotional language 18 Emotion and communication design 19 Emotion, colour, and language V Grammatical dimensions of emotion research 20 Morphology and emotion 21 Interjections and other emotional communicative acts 22 Morphosyntactic structure and emotion VI Semantics and the expression of emotion 23 Affective meaning in language 24 Vocabulary of emotions and its development in English, German and other languages 25 The use of emotion lexicon in emotion research 26 Emotions and figurative language 27 Studying emotion effects in language VII Language action and the processing of emotion 28 Pragmatics and emotions in social contexts 29 Rhetoric, stylistics, and emotion 30 Deception and emotion 31 Apologies, forgiveness and the social perception of emotions 32 The pragmatics of emotion, argument and conflict The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.