This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical
and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language
and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it
presents a novel methodological approach that takes into account
contextual information and hence goes beyond the reductionist approach
to affective language that has dominated contemporary research. Owing to
this pragmatic approach, the book presents brand new findings in the
field of bilingualism and affect and offers the first neurocognitive
interpretation of findings reported in clinical and introspective
studies in bilingualism. This not only represents an invaluable
contribution to the literature, but may also constitute a breakthrough
in the investigation of the worldwide phenomenon of bilingualism.
Beginning with a thorough review of the history and current state of
affective research and its relation to language, spanning philosophical,
psychological, neuroscientific, and linguistic perspectives, the volume
then proceeds to explore affect manifestation using neuropragmatic
methods in monolingual and bilingual individuals. In doing so, it brings
together findings from clinical and introspective studies in
bilingualism with cognitive, psychophysiological and neuroimaging
paradigms. By combining conceptual understanding and methodological
expertise from many disciplines, this volume provides a comprehensive
picture of the dynamic interactions between contextual and affective
information in the language domain. Thus, Affect-Language Interactions
in Native and Non-Native English Speakers: A Neuropragmatic
Perspective fosters a pragmatic approach to research on affective
language processing in monolingual and bilingual population, one that
builds bridges across disciplines and sparks important new questions in
the cognitive neuroscience of bi- and multilingualism.
