Looking through rose-colored glasses -Variations in affectivity and language competence: Effects on processing and verbalization of figurative and non-figurative expressions for internal states

透过玫瑰色眼镜看 - 情感和语言能力的变化：对内部状态的比喻和非比喻表达的处理和语言化的影响

• 批准号: 372577294
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christina Kauschke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft (IGS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/372577294?language=en
• 关键词: Looking; through; rose; colored; glasses

Language and emotion are in constant interaction: on the one hand, language plays an important role in the conceptualization and regulation of emotions. On the other hand, emotional states influence how language is processed and used. Following the first funding period, we aim at investigating how variations in affective states and language competence affect the figurative and non-figurative verbalization of emotions and other internal states. We understand emotion and language competence as dimensions on which clinical disorders (psychiatric disorders like depression or mania as well as language disorders) fill the edges of the spectrum. How emotional and language factors influence figurative language processing and production is the focus of this renewal proposal, which is organized in three work packages:1) The fMRI testing that had to be interrupted unexpectedly due to the corona pandemic in the first funding period will be continued and completed. In addition to the imaging technique, we plan to use a time-sensitive neuroscientific method (EEG) to investigate the temporal characteristics of the neural metaphor processing of patients with depression. Our results promise additional information about the temporal and spatial neural representation of figurative language as well as the impact of depression on these processes.2) Using behavioral methods (analysis of reaction times and elicited speech when retelling short videos), a heterogeneous sample will be tested regarding their processing and production of metaphors for internal states. The experiments are accompanied by a broad compilation of test instruments to collect data about individual differences in cognitive, affective, and language competences. We expect to gain information on the effects of interindividual variation on metaphor processing and verbalization of internal states. 3) Furthermore, a continuous, systematic extension of our metaphor database, which was built and made publicly available during the first funding period, is planned. The relevant affective and psycholinguistic variables for the linguistic stimuli will be collected via broadly conceived online-ratings.Based on our experiences with corona-induced difficulties with data collection, our work schedule is designed so that alternatives in form of online-experiments are available. In a long-term perspective, the results of the project can be transferred to clinical contexts as well as support communication about mental states to make affective disorders a topic within public discourse and counter stigmatization.

语言与情感是不断相互作用的：一方面，语言在情感的概念化和调节中起着重要的作用。另一方面，情绪状态影响语言的处理和使用。在第一个资助期之后，我们的目标是调查情感状态和语言能力的变化如何影响情感和其他内部状态的比喻和非比喻语言化。我们把情感和语言能力理解为临床障碍（精神障碍，如抑郁症或躁狂症以及语言障碍）的边缘。情感和语言因素如何影响比喻语言的处理和产生是这项更新提案的重点，该提案分为三个工作包：1）由于第一个资助期内的冠状病毒大流行而意外中断的功能磁共振成像测试将继续并完成。除了成像技术，我们计划使用一个时间敏感的神经科学方法（EEG）来调查抑郁症患者的神经隐喻加工的时间特征。我们的研究结果承诺的时间和空间的比喻语言的神经表征，以及抑郁症对这些过程的影响的额外信息。2）使用行为的方法（反应时间和复述短视频时引发的语音分析），一个异质样本将测试他们的处理和生产的内部状态的隐喻。这些实验伴随着广泛的测试工具的汇编，以收集有关认知，情感和语言能力的个体差异的数据。我们期望获得关于个体间差异对隐喻加工和内部状态动词化的影响的信息。3)此外，还计划对我们在第一个资助期内建立并公开的隐喻数据库进行持续、系统的扩展。语言刺激的相关情感和心理语言学变量将通过广泛构思的在线ratings.Based与电晕引起的数据收集的困难，我们的工作日程安排的经验收集，以便在网上实验的形式可供选择。从长远来看，该项目的结果可以转移到临床环境中，并支持有关精神状态的沟通，使情感障碍成为公共话语和反污名化的主题。