Emotional Prosody Processing for Non-Native English Speakers, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Towards An Integrative Emotion Paradigm The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, Vol. 3

This volume provides the first systematic and data-driven exploration of English emotional prosody processing in the minds of non-native speakers of the language. Over the past few decades emotional prosody has attracted the interest of researchers from a variety of disciplines such as psychiatry, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistics. Although a considerable collective body of empirical evidence exists regarding emotional prosody processing in native speakers of various languages, non-native speakers have been virtually ignored. This constitutes a knowledge gap of increasing relevance, as we approach 2050, the year when the global population of non-native speakers of English is estimated to overtake that of native speakers of the language.  This volume aims to fill this gap and provide insights into how emotions are processed on multiple levels while also presenting novel  methodological solutions. 

Crucially, Emotional Prosody Processing for Non-Native English Speakers: Towards an Integrative Emotion Paradigm  begins by providing a conceptual background of emotion research, and  then demonstrates a novel, workable, completely integrative paradigm for emotion research.  This integrative approach reconciles  theories such as the dimensional view of emotions, the standard basic emotions view, and the appraisal view of emotions.  Following this theoretical section is an empirical exploration of the topic: the volume explores those views via experimental tasks. The insight into overall processing  such a multiple-level approach allows a comprehensive answer to the question of how non native speakers of English process emotional prosody in their second language.  By  offering  a critical, data-driven, integrative approach to investigating emotions in the minds of non-native English speakers,  this volume is a significant and timely contribution to the literature on emotion prosody processing, bilingual research, and broadly understood emotion research. 

Chapter 1 Emotional relativity – argument from nurture             

1.1  Introduction      

1.2 The relativity of emotions in anthropology          

1.1.1 The dawn of relativity – Franz Boas and salvage anthropology         

1.1.2 The principle of linguistic relativity and the dual system of language – Edward Sapir              

1.1.3 Relativity through habituation and the seeds of confusion – Benjamin Lee Whorf  

1.1.5 Relativity of emotions in syntactic structures           

1.1.6 Emotional relativity in semantics   

1.1.7 Non-verbal and pragmatic emotional relativity       

1.3 Conclusions - emotional relativity     

Chapter 2 Emotion universals – argument from nature 

2.1 Universalism in the psychological research on emotions        

2.1.1 The great pioneer – Charles Darwin’s Expression of emotions in man and animal   

2.1.3 Between the dawn and rebirth – from the forefathers to Paul Ekman         

2.1.4 The universalist – Paul Ekman         

2.1.5 Resistance and revisionism – the Post-Ekmanians 

2.1.6 Conclusions – emotional universalism         

2.2 Between specificity and universalism – conclusion   

Chapter 3 Linguistics – the great absentee         

3.2 From Saussure to Chomsky – The Great Abstraction

3.3 Semiotics     

3.4 Semantics   

3.5 Pragmatics  

3.6 Conclusions

Chapter 4 A different look at emotion processing models           

4.1 A different approach to modelling and visualization 

4.2 The classic models of emotion processing     

4.3 Transition stage – Discrete emotions vs. Early dimensional models of emotion

processing         

4.5 Conclusions – The Cartesian see-saw              

Chapter 5 The state of emotional prosody research – A meta-analysis  

5.1 Introduction               

5.2 Consensus on the nature of emotional prosody processing  

5.3 Literature review selection criteria   

5.3.1 On the development and validity of stimuli for emotional prosody research             

5.4 The state of emotional research - evaluation              

5.5 Investigating emotional prosody in non-native English speakers – study design          

5.5.1 Creating stimuli     

5.5.2 Stimuli exploration              

5.5.3 Population sampling – Non-native English speakers             

5.6 Conclusion  

Chapter 6 The development of stimuli for emotional prosody research 

With contributions from Prof Dr. Jeanette Altarriba, State University of New York, Albany, USA              

6.1. Introduction             

6.2 Stimuli creation stage             

6.2.1 Speakers providing emotional speech samples       

6.2.2 Materials – elicitation and acting   

6.2.4 Results – the recorded material and emotion elicitation evaluation               

6.3. Stimuli exploration study    

6.3.1 The judges              

6.3.2 The evaluation procedures              

6.3.3 Determining “accuracy” across evaluation procedures        

6.3.4 The results of the exploration study            

6.4 Conclusions

Chapter 7 Emotional prosody processing in non-native English speakers             

7.1 Introduction               

7.2 Participants

7.3 Materials     

7.4 Experimental Procedure       

7.5 Data processing and determining accuracy   

7.6 Results

7.6.1 The Valence and Arousal Evaluation Task (ValAr) Results   

7.6.2 The Categorization Task (Cat.) Results        

7.6.4 The Free (naming) Task – Qualitative Results Analysis         

7.6.5 Task Difficulty Effects Analysis        

7.6.6 The Post-probe questionnaire results         

Chapter 8 Emotional prosody processing for non-native English speakers           

8.1 Introduction               

8.2 On reductionism      

8.4 On language               

8.5 On method 

8.6 Conclusions

Appendix 1        

Appendix 2

Demonstrates a new, viable integrative paradigm for emotion research

Addresses emotional prosody in non-native English speakers in a communicative interpersonal context

Provides a contemporary account of the state of emotion processing research, including both anthropological and psychological approaches

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras