Language Studies

Language Studies

The Role of Emotional Information in Verbal Understanding in Persian Older Adults

Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

Authors
Fatemeh Naeimi Hashkvaei 1
Hassan Ashayeri 2
Maryam Noroozian 3
1 Ph.D. student in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences(The First Autor).
3 Professor of Neurology, Department of Psychology, Tehran University of Medical Science.
10.30465/ls.2020.5441
Abstract
Emotion plays an important role in the daily life of humans from birth to death. In the cognitive social theories it suggests that emotion regulating and understanding ability increases in aging, because of optimal increase of positive state and increasing skill in understanding the emotional cues of word meanings. The purpose of this article is the study of how is understood emotion in older adults? Do the emotions convey through the lexical meanings of quoted sentences or emotional prosody? Therefore understanding of the basic emotions including anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and neutral situation through emotional prosody study in old age(up 65 years old), young and middle age. The aim is that how emotional lexical content without prosody is understood and how is the interaction of these two modes. Based on the observations of this research, the elderly use the meanings of the emotional content for understanding of sentences, instead of emotional prosody. Unlike old ages, young and mid old ages understand emotional sentences through emotional prosody and the meanings of emotional content is in second priority.
Keywords
emotional lexical content
emotional prosody
aging
basic emotion
emotional regulation
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  • Receive Date 15 April 2020
  • Revise Date 07 June 2020
  • Accept Date 22 June 2020