Language, Expressivity and Cognition

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Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional 'temperature' of a variety of contemporary discourses. Adopting a number of methodological angles, both qualitative and quantitative, the chapters present insights from cognitive linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as those resulting from the combination of these approaches. Using a wide variety of data types, from song lyrics and TV series to Twitter posts and political speeches, and through the analysis of a range of languages, including Arabic, English, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, and Turkish, the book offers a panoramic view of the multi-faceted interaction between language, expressivity and cognition. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Tables Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Constructing Emotion in Contemporary Discourses: A Taste for Expressivity Part I: Metaphoric Conceptualizations of Emotions Chapter 2: Emotion and Reasoning in Hungarian heart Metaphors Chapter 3: A Comparative Study of English, Italian and Polish Conceptual Metaphors of Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Inhibition Chapter 4: Linguistic Means to Discursively Construct Dehumanization Part II: Constructing Emotion in Internet Discourses Chapter 5: A Comparative Study of Donald J. Trump and Matteo Salvini’s Populist Strategies in the Representation of Immigrants and Refugees on Twitter Chapter 6: Collective Identities and Emotions in Online Contexts Chapter 7: A Phraseological Perspective on Evaluation: The Covid-19 Vaccination in Polish Web-Based News Part III: Emotion in Multimodal Discourses Chapter 8: Arabic–English Code-Switching in Egyptian Rap Music and Social Networks Chapter 9: Innovation and Emotion in Teen Talk in TV Series Chapter 10: An Appraisal Approach to Emotion, Culture and Discourse in Audio Description: Exploring Audio Description Quality in Turkey Conclusion Index