Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers

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This volume offers an evaluative review of theoretical and empirical perspectives on emotion and its interaction with language and cognition in both monolingual and bilingual individuals. It introduces a novel methodological approach that incorporates contextual information, moving beyond the reductionist views that have characterized current research on affective language. This pragmatic stance yields new findings in bilingualism and affect, providing the first neurocognitive interpretation of results from clinical and introspective studies. The book begins with a comprehensive overview of the history and current landscape of affective research, integrating philosophical, psychological, neuroscientific, and linguistic viewpoints. It then investigates how affect manifests through neuropragmatic methods in both monolingual and bilingual contexts, merging insights from clinical studies with cognitive, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging paradigms. By uniting conceptual understanding and methodological expertise across disciplines, the volume paints a detailed picture of the dynamic interplay between contextual and affective information in language. Ultimately, it promotes a pragmatic approach to studying affective language processing in diverse populations, fostering interdisciplinary connections and raising significant questions in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism.