In:Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 10] 2015
► pp. 367–398
Mood, aphasia, and affective language comprehension
Published online: 16 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/ceb.10.19hie
https://doi.org/10.1075/ceb.10.19hie
Understanding the emotional content in the words of others and reacting in
an adequate way are basic human competences. This article deals with some
of the multiple facets of language comprehension and inferences on protagonists’
emotions depending on mood and neuropsychological factors. The first
section asks how moods color our understanding of other people’s emotion
expressions, thereby influencing communicative behavior. The second section
discusses neuropsychological foundations of emotion perception. Lesions in
each hemisphere influence this competence in different aspects. Results from
reading tasks will present the specific problems of mild aphasia vs. right hemispheric
lesions showing different error patterns to infer the emotional content
from small texts. Consequences for patients’ communication strategies and
emotive alignment are discussed.
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