Module 3. Pragmatics of emotions

 

Module 3. Emotive pragmatic intention

Wittgenstein's philosophy of emotions (Gemütsbewegungen) regards the psychology of emotions from the viewpoint of the "surface" and "deep" grammar, where he considers either the description or the experience of the emotions, respectively. Therefore, surface grammar may lack sufficient perspicuity in unveiling true emotional states of the speakers. Classical pragmatic (speech act theory) and modern cognitive pragmatic approaches (the relevance theory) seek to establish the connection between the speaker's demonstrated intention and the audience's inferences of the intention from the provided evidence.

Further reading
1.Alba-Juez, L., & Larina, T. (2018). Language and emotion: Discourse pragmatic perspectives https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323271331_Language_and_emotion_Discoursepragmatic_perspectives

2.Alba-Juez, L., & Lachlan Mackenzie, J. (2019). Emotion processes in discourse. pp. 3-18

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331789471_Chapter_1_Emotion_processes_in_discourse

3. Bednarek, M. (2010). Emotion talk and emotional talk: approaches to language and emotion in Systemic Functional Linguistics and beyond.

https://www.academia.edu/2603596/_2010_Emotion_talk_and_emotional_talk_approaches_to_language_and_emotion_in_Systemic_Functional_Linguistics_and_Beyond

4. Scarantino, A. (2017). How to Do Things with Emotional Expressions: The Theory of Affective Pragmatics.

https://people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/CSCI534/Readings/Scarantino2017.pdf

5. Gilbert M.A. Prolegomenon to a Pragmatics of Emotion / Michael A. Gilbert
http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1885&context=ossaarchive

 6. Ronan P. (2015). Categorizing expressive speech acts in the pragmatically annotated SPICE Ireland corpus  /  Patricia Ronan// ICAME Journal, Volume 39, pp. 25-45
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/icame.2015.39.issue-1/icame-2015-0002/icame-2015-0002.xml
7. Schnall S.  The Pragmatics of Emotion Language
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/239307/Schnall%20(2005).pdf;jsessionid=8FE38E247CF382D279589376BA3063AF?sequence=1

8. Slaby, J., Muhlhoff, R., & Wuschner, Ph. (2019). Affective arrangements. Emotion review, 11(1).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073917722214

9. Welutzki, W. (2015). Emotions as pragmatic and epistemic actions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1593

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01593/full