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Emotional gratifications during media use – An integrative approach

The desire to experience emotions is widely considered to be a key motivation for media use, especially for the use of media entertainment...

Keywords: emotion, gratification, selective media use, meta-emotion

09/2006 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

L'é motion chantée : ‘Eu sei que vou te amar’

Pop songs offer a good opportunity for the study of emotions. The unavoidable presence of the voice — an extension of the singer's body that carries both melody and lyrics — sustains a connection between the enunciator's emotions and his/her work...

Keywords: emotion, meaning, pop song, semiotics, phoria

02/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Laughing brains: On the cognitive mechanisms and reproductive functions of mirth

Mirth is a central feature of our experience of literature and related arts. This essay considers the nature and origins of mirth...

Keywords: humor, literary cognition, comedy, emotion, childhood development, evolutionary psychology

06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Getting ‘emotional’ in two languages: Bilinguals' verbal performance of affect in narratives of personal experience

This article explores the cross-linguistic expression of affect by comparing how the same bilingual speaker displays affect in her two languages...

Keywords: emotion, affect, bilingualism, Narrative, French, Portuguese