Barrett Lisa Feldman, Lindquist Kristen A, Gendron Maria
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Aug;11(8):327-32. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.06.003. Epub 2007 Jul 10.
In the blink of an eye, people can easily see emotion in another person's face. This fact leads many to assume that emotion perception is given and proceeds independently of conceptual processes such as language. In this paper we suggest otherwise and offer the hypothesis that language functions as a context in emotion perception. We review a variety of evidence consistent with the language-as-context view and then discuss how a linguistically relative approach to emotion perception allows for intriguing and generative questions about the extent to which language shapes the sensory processing involved in seeing emotion in another person's face.
眨眼之间，人们就能轻易从他人脸上看出情绪。这一事实让许多人认为情绪感知是与生俱来的，且独立于语言等概念过程。在本文中，我们提出了不同的观点，并提出一种假设，即语言在情绪感知中起到背景作用。我们回顾了一系列与语言作为背景的观点相一致的证据，然后讨论了一种语言相对论的情绪感知方法如何引发关于语言在多大程度上塑造了在他人脸上识别情绪所涉及的感官处理过程的有趣且有启发性的问题。
