Aspectos emocionales del lenguaje

Abstract

Up to date the study of the relationship between language and emotion has received little attention from researchers. In the current work we will summarize evidence coming from the fields of developmental psychology and affective neurolinguistics. The results from different studies indicate that learning emotional language has its own idiosyncrasy. Also, the emotional content of words, sentences and texts modulates several levels of language processing, including phonological, lexico-semantic and morpho-syntactic aspects of language comprehension and production. Finally, the interactions between language and emotion involve the activation of several brain regions linked to distinct affective and linguistics processes, like parts of frontal and temporal cortices or subcortical structures such as the amygdala. Overall, the results of these studies clearly show that emotional content determines certain aspects of how we acquire and process language.