Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex(248 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Emotion in Dialogic Interaction’ at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ‘emotion in dialogic interaction’ is mostly addressed by reducing the complex and separating emotions or defining them by means of simple artificial units. The innovative claim of the workshop was to analyse emotion as an integrated component of human behaviour in dialogic interaction as demonstrated by recent findings in neurology and to develop a linguistic model which is able to deal with the complex integrated whole. Specific emphasis was laid on communicative means for expressing emotions and on emotional principles in dialogue. Furthermore, the issue of specific European principles for dealing with emotions was highlighted.

Table of Contents:
1. Foreword; 2. Part I. Addressing the complex; 3. Emotions: The simple and the complex (by Weigand, Edda); 4. Universality vs. culture-specificity of emotion (by Danes, Frantisek); 5. Emotions in language and communication (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 6. Emotions, language, and context (by Bazzanella, Carla); 7. Body, passions and race in classical theories of language and emotion (by Joseph, John E.); 8. Part II. Communicative means for expressing emotions; 9. Interjections in a contrastive perspective (by Aijmer, Karin); 10. When did we start feeling guilty? (by Teubert, Wolfgang); 11. Joy, astonishment and fear in English, German and Russian: A corpus-based contrastive-semantic analysis (by Dem'jankov, Valerij); 12. Ambivalence as a dialogic frame of emotions in conflict (by Stamenov, Maxim I.); 13. Part III. Emotional principles in dialogue; 14. The Role of Emotions in Normative Discourse and Persuasion (by Walrod, Michael R.); 15. Anticipation of public emotions in TV debates (by Bollow, Jorn); 16. Interpreting emotions in literary dialogue (by Weizman, Elda); 17. The author-reader-text emotional bond in the literary action game (by Sovran, Tamar); 18. On the inseparability of emotion and reason in argumentation (by Plantin, Christian); 19. General index; 20. List of contributors

Review :
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