What would a comprehensive atlas of human emotions include? For 50 years, scientists
have sought to map emotion-related experience, expression, physiology, and recognition in …

This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism—from infants to adults,
and from Sapir's foundational studies to twenty-first century product naming. It synthesizes …

In 2016, John Benjamins informed me of their wish to republish my 2011 monograph
Cultural Conceptualisations and Language, both in paperback and hardcover, due to …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

Vernacular lexemes appear self-evident, so we unwittingly reify them. But the words and
phrases of natural languages comprise a treacherous basis for identifying valid …

The objective of this study was to define an approach to describe the emotional profile
specific to a product category able to solve some limitations of the current approaches. A …

Researchers examining nonverbal communication of emotions are becoming increasingly
interested in differentiations between different positive emotional states like interest, relief …

Why are there different languages? A common explanation is that different languages arise
from the gradual accumulation of random changes. Here, we argue that, beyond these …

This special issue of our journal is devoted to a topic that is increasingly attracting the
attention of linguists in the 21st century, namely the expression of emotion in discourse. We …