Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the Complex

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Part I. Addressing the Complex......Page 14
1. The challenge of the complex......Page 16
2. What emotions really are: New findings, new questions......Page 20
3. Emotions and language......Page 24
3.1. Words and concepts......Page 26
3.2. Utterances and speech acts......Page 29
3.3. Principles of emotion......Page 31
References......Page 33
1. Man and emotion......Page 36
2. Emotion vs. cognition......Page 37
3. Operating of emotions......Page 39
4. Classification of emotion......Page 40
5. Dimensions and culture-specific aspects of emotion......Page 41
6. "No word - no feeling?"
......Page 43
7. The envoy......Page 44
References......Page 45
1. Introduction......Page 46
2. The study of emotions in poetics and stylistics......Page 47
3. Premises following the stylistic analysis......Page 49
4. Emotions in political debates......Page 52
5. Discussion of emotional choices: Are there emotionless dialogues?......Page 62
6. Conclusion......Page 64
References......Page 65
2.1. Mixed features of emotions......Page 68
2.2. The `compositional' nature of emotions......Page 69
3.1. Local and global context......Page 70
3.2. Correlation and variables......Page 72
3.3. The range of linguistic devices for expressing emotions......Page 75
3.4. The interactional development of emotions......Page 77
Notes......Page 80
References......Page 82
1. Introduction: Shylock's questions and Wollock's argument......Page 86
2. The passions in The Merchant of Venice......Page 87
3. Aristotle and Epicurus on the passions and language......Page 90
4. Aristotelian, Epicurean and Christian answers to Shylock......Page 93
5. Later answers, from Descartes and Locke to Renan......Page 99
6. Conclusions......Page 102
Notes......Page 105
References......Page 106
Part II. Communicative Means  for Expressing Emotions......Page 110
1. Introduction......Page 112
2. Definition and delimitation of the term interjection......Page 113
3. Interjections and indexicality......Page 117
4. Methods to study interjections......Page 118
5. Interjections in English - interjections in Swedish......Page 120
6. Interjections in English-reaction signals in Swedish......Page 122
8. Conclusion......Page 125
Notes......Page 126
References......Page 127
Appendix 1......Page 130
Appendix 2......Page 133
1. Introduction......Page 134
2.1. Guilt and what it means......Page 135
2.2. Shame in the context of guilt......Page 140
2.3. Guilt and semantically related words......Page 141
2.4. Words and terms......Page 143
3. Feelings as first-person experiences......Page 144
4. Shame and guilt in psychology and cultural anthropology......Page 147
5. Guilt feelings before 1850?......Page 151
6. The emergence of Schuldgefühl......Page 158
7. The emergence of guilt feelings in European literature......Page 166
8. Guilt feelings in contemporary discourse......Page 169
References......Page 174
1. Introduction......Page 176
2. Astonishment in German and Russian: E. T. A. Hoffmann vs. N. Gogol......Page 177
2.1.......Page 178
2.2.......Page 179
2.3.......Page 181
3.1. Clichés......Page 186
3.2. Clustering......Page 187
3.3. Most frequent types of contexts of use......Page 188
3.4. Epithets of joy and radost'......Page 189
4. Conclusion......Page 190
References......Page 191
1. What it looks like being ambivalent: A pair of examples......Page 192
2. Emotion and ambivalence......Page 193
3.1. Feeling, emotion and ambivalence: The phenomenon of mixed emotions......Page 194
3.2. The internal structure of ambivalent emotions......Page 196
3.3. How can I ascribe to myself two mutually contradictory emotions at one and the same time (and remain an identical I)?......Page 197
4.1. The meaning and use of the word ambivalence......Page 199
4.2. Ambiguity, polysemy, antonymy, homonymy, and ambivalent meanings: An example......Page 200
4.3. Further exploration of antonymy as a linguistic phenomenon vs. ambivalence as a psychological phenomenon......Page 202
4.4. Ambivalent frames juxtaposed to converse antonyms (buy-sell)......Page 203
5.1. Socially motivated opposites in experience......Page 204
5.2. The ambivalence-creating multiculturalism......Page 205
6.1. The styles and social registers of language and the position of negatively and ambivalently loaded Turkish loan words......Page 206
6.2. Ecce homo or imaging psychological types in Turkish loans......Page 207
6.4. The vanity fair of communicative interaction in the mirror of the Turkish loans......Page 209
6.5. Patterns of ambivalence in intercultural transfer......Page 210
7. Turkish ambivalent loans as internalization of a previous intercultural conflict......Page 214
8. Conclusions......Page 215
References......Page 216
Part III. Emotional Principles in Dialogue......Page 218
1. Introduction......Page 220
2.2. Non-verbal communicative conventions......Page 221
3. The role of emotions in normative discourse and social control......Page 223
4.1. The macrostructure of normative discourse......Page 224
4.2. Invoking norms or themes of high emotive content......Page 228
4.3. Lexical choice in discourse......Page 229
References......Page 231
1. Introduction......Page 234
2. Emotions as orientations in dialogic interaction......Page 235
3. Political TV-debates as dialogic action games......Page 236
4. Politics, the media society and emotions......Page 237
5.1. The format of the debate......Page 240
5.2. Emotions and evasion......Page 241
5.3. Strategic hiding of emotions......Page 243
5.4. Polarization vs. appeal to solidarity......Page 244
6. Violation of the formal rules......Page 246
7. Conclusions......Page 248
References......Page 249
Appendix......Page 250
1. Introducing the problem......Page 254
2. The text......Page 257
3. Constructing emotional values from meta-talk......Page 258
3.1. Naming emotions......Page 259
3.2. Constructing emotions through co-textual gapfilling......Page 260
3.3. Culture dependent connotations......Page 261
4. Questioning the narrator's sincerity......Page 262
4.1. Reasoning patterns......Page 263
4.3. Explicitation......Page 264
6. Concluding remarks......Page 265
References......Page 266
2. From sensations to emotions - language games and action games......Page 268
3. The emotional plot......Page 269
4.1. The universal factor......Page 271
4.2. Particular and indexical factors......Page 272
4.3. Beyond the novel: The author-as-person's external role in the action game......Page 273
5. Conclusions......Page 274
Notes......Page 275
References......Page 276
1. Introduction......Page 278
2.1. Passion, mood, affect, sentiment......Page 279
2.2. Emotions: state and process......Page 280
3. Four ways to emotions......Page 281
4. Cursing the government......Page 284
4.2. Emotions embedded in the situation......Page 285
4.4. Rage......Page 286
5. Conclusion......Page 287
References......Page 288
General Index......Page 290
The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series......Page 296