{"id":75619,"date":"2021-12-08T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=75619"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:47","slug":"dwivedi-our-emotions-and-identity-can-affect-how-we-use-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/12\/dwivedi-our-emotions-and-identity-can-affect-how-we-use-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"DWIVEDI: Our emotions and identity can affect how we use grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veena Dwivedi, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/our-emotions-and-identity-can-affect-how-we-use-grammar-171777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about research she conducted that underlines how emotional context affects how humans understand and use language at the neural level.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLanguage and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada\u2019s CEO Michael Rousseau\u00a0faced scrutiny over\u00a0not knowing French \u2014 his language deficit is helping support\u00a0Bill 96 in Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(which seeks to change the Canadian Constitution to affirm\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec as a nation and French its official language). Meanwhile Indian chain store Fabindia had to change advertisements for its\u00a0festive Diwali clothing line\u00a0from its Urdu name to appease Hindu nationalist politicians.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Language can evoke a strong social and emotional response. But the dominant theory of language in linguistics,\u00a0thanks to Noam Chomsky\u00a0(and the one in which I was trained), fails to consider these aspects.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In linguistics, and in cognitive science in general, the human mind is conceived of\u00a0metaphorically as a computer with different algorithms\u00a0for different procedures \u2014 with no reference to emotion or social context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A better understanding of language and its neuroscientific basis would help us handle linguistic issues throughout our lives. My\u00a0new research\u00a0underlines how emotional context affects how we understand and use language at the neural level. It also identifies a piece of the human language puzzle that has, up until now, been missing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/our-emotions-and-identity-can-affect-how-we-use-grammar-171777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veena Dwivedi, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about research she conducted that underlines how emotional context affects how humans understand and use language at the neural level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[522,29,5512,3492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75622,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75619\/revisions\/75622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}