When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an
emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context,“moved,”“touched,”“heart …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

Qualitative research has exploded in popularity in nearly every discipline from the social
sciences to health fields to business. While many qualitative textbooks explain how to …

After centuries of neglect due to their disputed status as linguistic items, interjections like
Ouch! or Whoops! have started to attract considerable interest over the last couple of …

This study seeks to show that Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) analytical techniques
allow an integrated semantic-pragmatic approach to the use of “swear words” and “curse …

This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been
studied in any systematic manner. The words that come closest to denoting it in English are …

This paper presents an analysis of face emoji (disc-shaped pictograms with stylized facial
expressions) that accompany written text. We propose that there is a use of face emoji in …

An important factor in the course of daily medical diagnosis and treatment is understanding
patients' emotional states by the caregiver physicians. However, patients usually avoid …

Title description The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first
extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further …

Human speech expresses emotional meaning not only through semantics, but also through
certain attributes of the voice, such as pitch or loudness. In investigations of vocal emotion …