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CONTEXTUAL AND CROSSLINGUISTIC FACETS OF EMOTIO...

Emotions permeate every aspect of our lives and not only provide us with invaluable information
about our environment and the people in it  but also influence our perception of situations and
events. Interestingly  this domain  so ubiquitous in our everyday lives  largely resists
attempts at scientific definition. One reason for this could be that emotions rarely occur in
isolation but are usually combined or embedded in other states of mind. Moreover  the
experience of emotions may be influenced not only by culture but also by individual language.
Analysis is further complicated by the fact that emotions are abstract and require complex
linguistic coding to make an invisible emotional state of the speaker at least rudimentarily
visible to the listener. For this reason  the present volume aims to investigate the perception
encoding  reception  and influence potential of emotions in context and across languages using
different corpora. The following questions are central: To what extent do emotions influence
our perception of events and facts? and To what extent can emotion concepts be defined
language-specifically  but also universally  on the basis of our perception? Therefore  the
eight contributions analyze emotions in different contexts and from different starting points
to uncover the cognitive mechanisms underlying the perception and influence of emotion
concepts. The first four papers focus primarily on emotional and sensory experiences and
interactions that are set in motion when we are confronted with emotions  while the following
four focus on the different facets of emotion across languages to show which emotion concepts
are language-specific or universal  and thus contribute to a better understanding of this
complex field.

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