Description
Language is a great tool, an infinitely extendable discrete combinatorial coding system that has amplified the communicative capabilities of Homo sapiens far beyond that of other Great Apes or any other species on this planet. However, as a member of Homo Sapiens, you also happen to be just another mammal, and as such biologically predisposed to have emotions and to communicate them to others. So how does our emotional nature interact with our linguistic one? For example, can we find evolutionary connections between our capability to communicate emotion via facial expressions and our later capability to generate and comprehend speech acts? To what extent is affective information formally coded in syntax? What role does emotion play in semantic composition? How do speakers use prosody to express their emotional stance? And how does reading about other people's emotion mesh with having one's own? In this symposium, hosted by the Institute of Linguistics OTS of Utrecht University, experts on emotion and on language will join forces to examine these issues. Our keynote speaker is Andrea Scarantino, professor in philosophy at Georgia State University, USA. Andea Scarantino is an internationally leading figure in emotion research, who has written several authorative overview papers on emotion theory as well as many papers addressing specific thorny issues in emotion research (such as on how emotions can cause actions, both rigidly and flexibly). He is also one of the few emotion scholars who have actively explored the links between emotion and language. Other speakers: Norbert Corver, Rick Nouwen, Na Hu and Jos van Berkum. The event was organized by Jos van Berkum & Marijn Struiksma| Period | 15 Jul 2019 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Utrecht, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |