Introduction: Affective language and prosody as a key

Abstract

[eng] This volume includes a series of studies that focus on “affectivity” as an important phenomenon that marks and conditions every act of communication, with a common interest in language teaching and learning, above all second languages. As we will see, in communication and particularly in the special communicative context of second language teaching and learning, affectivity includes emotions but also goes much further. It is an extremely broad field, much of which is yet to be discovered.