Project Details
Projekt
EXC 302: Languages of Emotion
Subject Area
Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
History
Literary Studies
Neurosciences
Philosophy
Psychology
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Social Sciences
Linguistics
History
Literary Studies
Neurosciences
Philosophy
Psychology
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Social Sciences
Linguistics
Term
from 2007 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39932880
The research focus of this cluster of excellence concerns the interdependencies between language and affect. Human communication routinely involves the transmission, shaping and eliciting of emotions. It does so in a wide variety of forms - including indirect and unconscious ones - that are bound to the use of various media and sign systems. Language, religion, political, and social ideologies, arts, everyday aesthetic fashions and the "codes" of personal interaction are powerful factors and archives of these affective practices. The complex interrelations between the use of signs/symbols, the transfer of emotions, aesthetic practices, mental dispositions and affective modes of constructing both personal and social identities comprise the field that the research cluster aims to examine.
The wide range of sign practices related to affective behaviour has yet to be adequately addressed by interdisciplinary research, although the pertinent phenomena quite probably account for the majority of affective experiences in human Lebenswelten. This focus does not in itself give the cluster of excellence a bias toward the humanities and cultural studies. It rather opens up questions in which the humanities and the sciences can supplement one another's research potential. The four research areas of the cluster of excellence will address the following topics:
(1) the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (language, sound, image),
(2) the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/shaping emotions,
(3) correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders) and
(4) modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social behaviour.
The wide range of sign practices related to affective behaviour has yet to be adequately addressed by interdisciplinary research, although the pertinent phenomena quite probably account for the majority of affective experiences in human Lebenswelten. This focus does not in itself give the cluster of excellence a bias toward the humanities and cultural studies. It rather opens up questions in which the humanities and the sciences can supplement one another's research potential. The four research areas of the cluster of excellence will address the following topics:
(1) the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (language, sound, image),
(2) the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/shaping emotions,
(3) correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders) and
(4) modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social behaviour.
DFG Programme
Clusters of Excellence
Applicant Institution
Freie Universität Berlin
Participating Institution
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW); Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung; Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften; Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG); Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie (MPI EVA)
Participating University
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder); Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Technische Universität Berlin; Universität Greifswald; Universität Potsdam
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Irene Albers; Professor Dr. Malek Bajbouj; Professorin Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter; Professor Dr. Michael Eid; Professorin Dr. Jutta Eming; Professorin Dr. Ute Frevert; Professor Dr. Peter Geimer; Professor Dr. Jürgen Gerhards; Professorin Dr. Ulla Haselstein; Professor Dr. Hauke Reiner Heekeren; Professorin Dr. Isabella Heuser; Professorin Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit; Professor Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs; Professorin Dr. Gertrud Koch; Professorin Dr. Sybille Krämer; Professor Dr. Klaus Krüger; Professorin Dr. Hilge Landweer; Professor Dr. Winfried Menninghaus; Professorin Dr. Cornelia Müller; Professor Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller; Professor Dr. Albrecht Riethmüller; Professorin Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler; Professorin Constance Scharff, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Georg Witte
