Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings

Olness, Gloria Streit; Muñoz, Maria

Publication

Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings

Olness, Gloria Streit; Muñoz, Maria

Publisher

Elsevier

Date

2011-01-01

Abstract

A recent historical review and prospective account of neurolinguistics and communication neuroscience speculated on the increased contribution of emotional neurosciences to future advances in the field. the perception, expression, and experience of emotion is potentially altered in a variety of neurogenic conditions, including aphasia, right hemisphere disorders, traumatic brain injury, dementia, epilepsy, and a variety of psychiatric disorders. Many channels are used to operationalize emotion in clinical assessment and research including facial, prosodic, gestural, verbal, postural, graphic, and musical channels. Of the several ways to operationalize emotion, the verbal expressive channel has received relatively little attention as a research and clinical tool; and has been operationalized almost exclusively as expression of emotive lexicon.