During the last decade several studies focused on the role of language in mental state comprehension. These works proved that different linguistic skills in particular lexicon, syntax and semantics are closely related to emotion understanding (Harris & de Rosnay, 2002; Pons et al., 2003). At present, we know little about the influence of pragmatic abilities on children s emotion understanding. We hypothesize that pragmatic skills, particularly the ability of making inferences, can be considered as good indicators of children s emotion
Farina, E., Albanese, O., Pons, F. (2007). Making inferences and individual differences in emotion understanding. PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION, 11(2), 3-19.
Making inferences and individual differences in emotion understanding
FARINA, ELEONORAPrimo
;ALBANESE, OTTAVIAUltimo
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2007
Abstract
During the last decade several studies focused on the role of language in mental state comprehension. These works proved that different linguistic skills in particular lexicon, syntax and semantics are closely related to emotion understanding (Harris & de Rosnay, 2002; Pons et al., 2003). At present, we know little about the influence of pragmatic abilities on children s emotion understanding. We hypothesize that pragmatic skills, particularly the ability of making inferences, can be considered as good indicators of children s emotionI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.