The interplay between language and emotion
Introduction to the Special Issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7149992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pilar Ferré (0000-0002-3192-0040, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, corresponding author), Isabel Fraga (0000-0001-9346-6560, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), José A Hinojosa (0000-0002-7482-9503, Universidad Nebrija) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1405-1417 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognition & Emotion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9931 • E-ISSN: 1464-0600 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02699931.2025.2549966 |
| PMID | 40864996 |
| OpenAlex | W4413755936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 96 |
This special issue provides an overview of recent developments in the relationship between language and emotion. It includes a theoretical paper reviewing the extensive empirical evidence of this relationship, as well as 25 empirical studies. The studies address topics related to the conveyance of emotional content by language, focusing on semantics and speech sounds; the impact of emotion on language processing, from words to sentences; and the influence of language in the perception, experience and regulation of emotions throughout life. The findings highlight several modulatory factors, primarily relating to the affective and non-affective properties of verbal information, as well as some inter-individual differences. The conclusion is that all these factors must be considered to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between language and emotion
Cognitive psychology · Emotion classification · Emotion Perception · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Linguistics · Perception · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology
Visual Word Recognition of Single-Syllable Words.
The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution
Toward a theory of semantic representation
The Emotion Process
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas
Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon
Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words
Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex.
Basic Emotions, Natural Kinds, Emotion Schemas, and a New Paradigm
Embodying Emotion
Emotionality differences between a native and foreign language
The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure
Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion.
The Modularity of Mind
Rer-Lx
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus
The impact of emotional valence on generalization gradients
The acquisition of emotion-laden words from childhood to adolescence
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion
Cognitive-emotional processing in alexithymia
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch
How affect modulates conversational meanings
Affect labelling increases the intensity of positive emotions
Social context effects on emotional language
The representation of emotion vs. emotion-laden words in English and Spanish in the Affective Simon Task
Affect Labeling can Reduce Negative Emotions
Neural correlates of emotion-label vs. emotion-laden word processing in late bilinguals
Use of linguistic distancing and cognitive reappraisal strategies during emotion regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults
Let Me Go
The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation
The role of emotional valence in learning novel abstract concepts
The “ins” and “outs” of person perception
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect
When unpleasantness meets feminines
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms
Are valence and arousal related to the development of amodal representations of words? A computational study
Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud
Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents
Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders
The role of emotion in acquisition of verb meaning
Semantic effects on the perception of emotional prosody in native and non-native Chinese speakers
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations
The role of valence and arousal for phonological iconicity in the lexicon of German
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health
Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background
Syntactic and emotional interplay in second language
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition
Can irony regulate negative emotion? Evidence from behaviour and ERPs
Why positive information is processed faster
Oral approach–avoidance
Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences
An argument for basic emotions
Increasing verbal knowledge mediates development of multidimensional emotion representations
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |