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How Emotions Are Made in Talk
How Emotions Are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis applied to a range of settings including sports, workplaces, telephone calls, classrooms, friends and healthcare. The aim of the book is to provide new insights into how emotions are produced as social actions in relation to, for example, encouragement, responsibility, crying, objects, empathy, joy, surprise, touch, and pain. This volume should be of interest to interactional scholars and researchers interested in social approaches to emotion, and addresses a range of scholarship across the disciplines of sociology, communication, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] 2021. xvii, 292 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 April 2021
Published online on 24 April 2021
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Author bios | pp. vii–xii
- Emotion as an emergent theme in conversation analysis: A prefaceAnssi Peräkylä | pp. xiii–xviii
- How emotions are made to do things: An introductionAnn Weatherall and Jessica S. Robles | pp. 1–24
- Part 1. The social moral ordering of emotions
- Chapter 1.1. Emotional intensity as a resource for moral assessments: The action of ‘incitement’ in sports settingsEdward Reynolds | pp. 27–50
- Chapter 1.2. Affect in interaction: Working out expectancies and responsibility in a phone callBryanna Hebenstreit and Alan Zemel | pp. 51–76
- Chapter 1.3. Displaying emotional control by how crying and talking are managedAnn Weatherall | pp. 77–98
- Part 2. Emotions as temporally unfolding
- Chapter 2.1. Using objects and technologies in the immediate environment as resources for managing affect displays in troubles talkJessica S. Robles, Stephen M. DiDomenico and Joshua Raclaw | pp. 101–128
- Chapter 2.2. Shared affective stance displays as preliminary to complainingJohanna Ruusuvuori, Birte Asmuß, Pentti Henttonen and Niklas Ravaja | pp. 129–162
- Chapter 2.3. Embodiment in reciprocal laughter: Sharing laughter, gaze, and embodied stance in children’s peer groupEmilia Strid and Asta Cekaite | pp. 163–186
- Part 3. Displays of emotion
- Chapter 3.1. Responding empathically from shifting epistemic terrainsJoseph Ford and Alexa Hepburn | pp. 189–210
- Chapter 3.2. Socializing the emotions of joy and surprise in parent-child interactionHansun Zhang Waring | pp. 211–232
- Chapter 3.3. Haptics and emotions in speech and language therapy sessions for people with post-stroke aphasiaSara Merlino | pp. 233–262
- Chapter 3.4. Affect and accountability: Pain displays as a resource for actionAmanda McArthur | pp. 263–286
- Appendix A. Transcription glossary | pp. 287–288
“With ten methodologically coherent contributions organized into three thematic parts – on emotions and the social order, timing and strategies for revealing and negotiating emotions in conversations, and lastly the display of emotions across modalities – the volume is a model for how to produce meaningful knowledge in the context of a joint volume. In a remarkably clear and comprehensive introduction, Weatherall and Robles explain how the collection builds upon contributions from Peräkylä and Sorjonen (2012), to advance understanding of particular aspects of their topic.”
Maïa Ponsonnet, CNRS/Université Lyon 2, in Journal of Pragmatics 200 (2022).
“How Emotions Are Made in Talk is recommended reading for interactional scholars and researchers interested in social approaches to emotion and addresses a range of scholarship across the disciplines among sociology, communication, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology.”
Songsong Zhang, Jinling Institute of Technology & Jinyang Hu, Shanghai Maritime University, in Pragmatics and Society 14:3 (2023)
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