Meaningaffect
Meaningaffect is a term used in linguistics and cognitive science to describe the bidirectional relationship between affect (emotion) and linguistic meaning. It concerns how an utterance’s semantic content is interpreted through the reader’s or listener’s emotional state, and how the expressed meaning can provoke emotional responses that in turn influence understanding. The concept sits at the intersection of semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and affective science.
In practice, meaningaffect encompasses two related processes. First, affective dimensions of language—such as valence, arousal, and
Research approaches include corpus studies with affect annotations, experimental methods in psycholinguistics (for example, reaction time
Notes: meaningaffect is not universally standardized as a single field, and some researchers address its component