Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
17 - Affect and Emotion
from Part II - Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter presents a sociopragmatic approach to the study of affect and emotion, taking into account the fact that human emotions are conceptualized and linguistically expressed by means of speech acts within different and various affective practices. Key theories addressing the topic from a linguistic and discourse-pragmatic perspective are outlined and critically discussed, arguing for the need to broaden the scope of research towards a more complex, multidisciplinary and multidimensional analysis of emotion. Thus, the main findings of approaches such as those of functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, social and cultural theories, and sensory pragmatics are also outlined. The relationship between emotion and other discursive phenomena such as stance taking, (im)politeness, swearing, humor or irony is highlighted, as is the relationship between emotion and evaluation. Finally, an analysis of a videotaped narrative of personal experience is presented, emphasizing the importance of both deconstructing the different elements of discursive emotion and formulating appropriate research questions, in order to shed light on the crucial sociopragmatic aspects of affective relational practices.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 340 - 362Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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