The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. It consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few. The collection of papers offers a constructive and inspiring insight into a fuller understanding of the interconnection of the language-cognition-affect trichotomy.
The relationship between language, cognition and affect has long intrigued
scholars from various fields. Thus far, many complex and even contrary approaches
to these relationships have been proposed, however, with no clear consensus,
in spite of the impressive body of research generated in this area.
The general purpose of the present volume is to enrich the discussion on the
association of the three influential constructs of language, cognition and affect,
guided by the assumption that language has the power of integrating cognition and
affect—a basis strongly revealed in the process of language acquisition. It has been
established that the individual’s cognitive development is closely linked to language,
which informs the structure and function of the human mind (Bloom and
Keil 2001). Concurrently, its use cannot occur without expressing various affective
states (e.g., Wierzbicka 1999). For this reason, language is placed among the basic
cognitive and emotional processes.
