Module 2. Grammar of emotions

 

Module 2. Grammar of emotions. Verbal representation of emotion

Emotion as a type of mental experience may find its representation in language in a number of ways:

• Labelling emotion;
• Description of emotion display;
• Metaphorization of emotional experience;
• Verbal reporting of emotional experiences and state /action tendencies 

The increase in intensity of emotional experience through the aforementioned ways of emotion reification is substatiated by the nature of linguistic signs - from iconicity and symbolism to indexicality.

Metaphors, if treated as all-pervasive phenomena, are not mere stylistic devices but according to George Lakoff supply "an alternative account in which human experience and understanding, rather than objective truth, plays the central role".

Further reading
1.  Alba-Juez, L., & Lachlan Mackenzie, J. (2019). Emotion processes in discourse. J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Laura Alba-Juez (Eds). Emotions in discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. P. 3-18 . 

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

2. 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
3.Fiehler, R. How to do emotions with words: emotionality in conversations. In Fussell, Susan R. (ed.): The Verbal Communication of Emotions.Interdisciplinary Perspectives. - Mahwah, NJ/London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. pp. 79-106.
https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/4636/file/Fiehler_How_to_Do_Emotions_With_Words_Emotionality_in_Conversations_2002_Eng.pdf

4. Gendron, M., Lindquist, K. A., Barsalou L., Feldman Barrett L. (2002). Emotion Words Shape Emotion Percepts. Emotion, 12(2).  P. 314-325. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445832/

5. Kövecses, Z. (2000). Language and Emotion Concepts.
In Metaphor and emotion: Language, culture and body in human feeling. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.1-19

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0QfdsxZ7QwbXG5r8bGdv0vGBh096t52/view?usp=sharing
 6. Lakoff, G. & Johns0n, M. (2003). Metaphors we live by. - London: The university of Chicago press. pp. 3-18. 

 https://www.textosenlinea.com.ar/libros/Lakoff%20y%20Johnson%20-%20Metaphors%20We%20Live%20By%20-%201980.pdf

7. Pinich, I. (2020). Qualitative emotion analysis in Modern linguistic studies 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bwnk5E8qysSvy_NSDNApGBNZ3u-Zo7YG/view?usp=sharing

8. Rosenwein, B. H. (2006). Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions. In Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale, 49 (1). P. 33-48.
https://ww w.passionsincontext.de/uploads/media/01_Rosenwein.pdf

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