Does Anger Influence Accentuation?

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 13 University of Tubingen language: English abstract: In linguistics there are only few studies that investigate the correlation between emotion and language since language and cognition were treated as autonomous systems. One of the few books that puts an emphasis on this topic and analyses it in detail is Monika Schwarz-Friesel's Sprache und Emotion published in 2012.The paper proves that in some situations anger definitely influences accentuation. Hence epithets which behave like a pronoun and therefore refer to a previously mentioned DP are accentuated in many cases since it was uttered by an angry person.People are loving suffering and reflective human beings because they have feelings. Emotions and feelings are reflected in all areas of existential human experience. With language we express our subjective feelings. Thus the relation between language and emotion is an important phenomenon especially in the interpretation of the mediated. This area however has been excluded for long from linguistics and cognitive science investigation because they saw language and cognition as autonomous systems that were not heavily influenced by emotions. However it is generally believed that the universal ability to primary emotions are innate. Basic emotions such as happiness anger disgust fear contempt and sadness can be recognized and expressed by people in all cultures. These emotions occur relatively short and intense.For some years now as Schwarz-Friesel describes there is an emotional turn (ibid.). Emotions are now regarded as determinative parts of cognitive states and processes. Particularly in the area of language processing -both production and reception of linguistic utterances- shows the influence of language on cognitive processes (cf. Schwarz-Friesel 2 ff.). With (linguistic) utterances emotions are expressed and na