ReviewCommunications psychology2025
The construction of emotional meaning in language.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Improving the comparability of momentary affect assessments and accounting for item-specific effects in within-person affect dynamics.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Pragmatic Competence Modulates Counterfactual Emotion Processing: Eye-Tracking Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Putting Emotional Memories in Context: The Constructionist Model of Emotional Memory.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Review
- Language-based assessments can predict psychological and subjective well-being.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Media framing of agricultural technology adoption in developing countries: Evidence from Juncao technology news coverage.PloS one · 2026Article
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Abstract
The experience of emotion is a form of meaning-making: it reveals one's relationship to the circumstances. Often, the emphasis is on the emotions explicitly named or subjective feelings conveyed. In this perspective, we argue that psychology should use a broader set of tools to study emotional meaning in language. We put forward three sets of language features that capture: the contextual features or aspects of experience salient at each moment (attention); the conceptual vantage point which from events are viewed (construal); the evaluation of events along relevant dimensions (appraisal). We explain how each of these language features can be used to answer specific questions about emotional meaning-making and how it varies based on situation, person, and culture. Our interdisciplinary approach-grounded in socio-, cognitive, and computational linguistics as well as discursive, cognitive, and emotion psychology-seeks to move the field to a higher-dimensional, dynamical account of emotional meaning.
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