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Emotion in Discourse
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Interest in human emotion no longer equates to unscientific speculation. 21st-century humanities scholars are paying serious attention to our capacity to express emotions and giving rigorous explanations of affect in language. We are unquestionably witnessing an ‘emotional turn’ not only in linguistics, but also in other fields of scientific research.
Emotion in Discourse follows from and reflects on this scholarly awakening to the world of emotion, and in particular, to its intricate relationship with human language. The book presents both the state of the art and the latest research in an effort to unravel the various workings of the expression of emotion in discourse. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, for emotion is a multifarious phenomenon whose functions in language are enlightened by such other disciplines as psychology, neurology, or communication studies. The volume shows not only how emotion manifests at different linguistic levels, but also how it relates to aspects like linguistic appraisal, emotional intelligence or humor, as well as covering its occurrence in various genres, including scientific discourse. As such, the book contributes to an emerging interdisciplinary field which could be labeled “emotionology”, transcending previous linguistic work and providing an updated characterization of how emotion functions in human discourse.
Emotion in Discourse follows from and reflects on this scholarly awakening to the world of emotion, and in particular, to its intricate relationship with human language. The book presents both the state of the art and the latest research in an effort to unravel the various workings of the expression of emotion in discourse. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, for emotion is a multifarious phenomenon whose functions in language are enlightened by such other disciplines as psychology, neurology, or communication studies. The volume shows not only how emotion manifests at different linguistic levels, but also how it relates to aspects like linguistic appraisal, emotional intelligence or humor, as well as covering its occurrence in various genres, including scientific discourse. As such, the book contributes to an emerging interdisciplinary field which could be labeled “emotionology”, transcending previous linguistic work and providing an updated characterization of how emotion functions in human discourse.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 302] 2019. xi, 397 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 March 2019
Published online on 4 March 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–11
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Emotion processes in discourseLaura Alba-Juez and J. Lachlan Mackenzie | pp. 3–26
- Section I. Emotion, syntax and the lexicon: Taboo words, interjections, axiology, phraseology
- Chapter 2. The multifunctionality of swear/taboo words in television seriesMonika Bednarek | pp. 29–54
- Chapter 3. The syntax of an emotional expletive in EnglishJ. Lachlan Mackenzie | pp. 55–86
- Chapter 4. Interjections and emotions: The case of goshAngela Downing and Elena Martínez Caro | pp. 87–112
- Chapter 5. Expressing emotions without emotional lexis: A crosslinguistic approach to the phraseology of the emotions in Spanish and EnglishRuth Breeze and Manuel Casado-Velarde | pp. 113–138
- Chapter 6. The value of left and rightAd Foolen | pp. 139–158
- Section II. Pragmatics and emotion: Cyberemotion, the emotion of humor, pragmatic (epistemic) markers of emotion
- Chapter 7. A cognitive pragmatics of the phatic InternetFrancisco Yus | pp. 161–188
- Chapter 8. Humor and mirth: Emotions, embodied cognition, and sustained humorSalvatore Attardo | pp. 189–212
- Chapter 9. My anger was justified surely? Epistemic markers across British English and German Emotion EventsNina-Maria Fronhofer | pp. 213–244
- Section III. Interdisciplinary studies: Emotion in linguistics and psychology
- Chapter 10. Emotion and language ‘at work’: The relationship between Trait Emotional Intelligence and communicative competence as manifested at the workplaceLaura Alba-Juez and Juan-Carlos Pérez-González | pp. 247–278
- Chapter 11. The effects of linguistic proficiency, Trait Emotional Intelligence and in-group advantage on emotion recognition by British and American English L1 usersJean-Marc Dewaele, Pernelle Lorette and Konstantinos V. Petrides | pp. 279–300
- Chapter 12. Rethinking Martin & White’s affect taxonomy: A psychologically-inspired approach to the linguistic expression of emotionMiguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro and Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio | pp. 301–332
- Section IV. Emotion in different discourse types: Journalistic and scientific discourse
- Chapter 13. Victims, heroes and villains in newsbites: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Spanish eviction crisis in El PaísIsabel Alonso Belmonte | pp. 335–356
- Chapter 14. Promoemotional science? Emotion and intersemiosis in graphical abstractsCarmen Sancho Guinda | pp. 357–386
- Name Index | pp. 387–394
- Subject Index | pp. 395–397
“The present volume constitutes a valuable contribution for a number of interrelated disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and communication studies. In fact, its merit is to provide the reader with a wide overview of various scientific perspectives on the study of emotions, contributing to the so-called ‘emotional turn’ not only in linguistics, but also in other fields of scientific research. [...] Overall, the volume constitutes an extremely interesting collection of innovative studies, which represent a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary effort to bring the attention of the scientific community on the relations among emotion, language and society.”
Lucia Busso, Aston University, on Linguist List 31.889 (9 November 2019)
“All the papers in this volume have been carefully researched and amply supported with extensive bibliographical references, and their quality is exactly what we would expect from a selection made by Mckenzie and Alba-Juez [...]. There is no doubt in my mind that this volume is an extremely valuable addition to its field.”
Brian Mott, Universidad de Barcelona, in Miscelánea 61 (2020).
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