Emotion in language : theory - research - application / edited by Ulrike M. L�udtke, Technische Universit�at Berlin.

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Emotion in Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction: From logos to dialogue; The language divide: The negation of pathos and mythos by logos; The polyphonic rise of emotivity: Reinstalling the "other" side; The emotional turn: Conceptualizing the wholeness of language; References; Part I. Theory; The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language; 1. Introduction: Affective connection and the ability to share meaningful skills; 2. What is language before words? The puzzle of narratives with no reference to the world

3. First steps to the convivial art and practice of stories in words4. The seductive musicality of infant communication: The vital syntax of emotional narratives; 5. Brain development and learning how to mean with feeling: Affection, interest and the use of lang; 6. Epilogue: The roots of language are emotional, and interpersonal; References; Primal emotions and cultural evolution of language: Primal affects empower words; Overall thesis; 1. Some critical fundamentals about the neural genesis of language; 2. The potential social-emotional foundations of language

3. Hierarchical BrainMind evolution and the general-purpose neocortical substrates for language-gene4. Taking the hierarchical evolutionary stratification of the brain seriously; 5. Fleshing out the nature of our deep emotional urge to communicate with each other; 6. Coda: On the excesses of evolutionary views of human language; References; Emotion on board; 1. Introduction; 2. Innateness and early functionality of emotion; 2.1 About innateness; 2.2 About early functionality; 3. Emotion as sharing box; 4. Early negative responses to blank or non-contingent faces

5. The emotional effect of maternal depression6. Discrimination of facial expressions and encoding; 7. Encoding facial expressions; 8. Encoding emotion in human and non-human medium; 9. Emotion in autism; 10. Emotional sharing in autism during live scenarios; 10.1 Synchronic imitation scenario; 10.2 Revisited still face scenario; 11. Conclusion; References; The origins of emotion and language from the perspective of developmental neuropsychology; 1. Introduction; 2. Brain asymmetries exist at many levels of description; 3. Functional independence of the hemispheres increases with evolution

4. Attentional asymmetry in birds and animals5. Attentional asymmetry in humans; 6. Consequences of attentional differences; 7. The origins of language; 8. Communication without language; 9. Thought without language; 10. Metaphor; 11. Language rooted in the body; 12. The embodied self and the right hemisphere of the brain; References; Language and emotion in Merleau-Ponty; 1. Introduction; 2. The mouth: Sexuality and metaphysics; 3. Movement in speech: Gesture and expression; 4. The child in language: Risk and play; 5. Conclusions; References

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