vbid/9783319440422

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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.�Typham this is the title: Emotional Prosody Processing for Non-Native English Speakers Towards An Integrative Emotion Paradigm