The Sociopragmatics of Emotion
The Sociopragmatics of Emotion
Michael Haugh, University of Queensland
£85.00
GBPEmotion plays a critical role in every human interaction and permeates all social activity. Displaying, responding to, and talking about emotions is thus central to human language, communication, and social interaction. However, emotions are multidimensional, indeterminate, and inherently situated phenomena, which makes studying them in contextualised settings challenging for researchers. This groundbreaking book illustrates what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life, and sets out to lay the necessary foundations for a sociopragmatic theorisation of emotion. It brings together a renowned team of multidisciplinary scholars to demonstrate how evaluation, relationships, and morality are central to any account of emotions in discourse and interaction. It also exemplifies how a sociopragmatic approach to emotions pays more attention to the role that different discourse systems play in how emotions are expressed, interpreted, responded to, and talked about across different languages and cultures.
- Demonstrates what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life
- Explores how evaluation, relationships and morality are central to the ways in which emotions are displayed, responded to, and talked about in discourse and interaction
- Examines contextual factors that shape the systematic ways in which emotions are displayed, responded to, and talked about in different modes of communication across a range of different settings
Product details
May 2025Hardback
9781009368407
336 pages
229 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from May 2025
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The sociopragmatics of emotion in discourse and interaction Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh
- Part I. Emotion and Evaluation:
- 2. Invoked emotions in times of coronavirus: a sociopragmatic analysis of the narratives of healthcare workers and victims of covid19 in spain during the lockdown Laura Alba-Juez
- 3. The use of humour as an affiliative strategy in times of covid Carmen MaÃz-Arévalo and Francisco Yus
- 4. Promoemotion in action: sci-tech marketing in university innovation portfolios Carmen Sancho Guinda
- Part II. Emotion and Relationships:
- 5. Doing emotions and displaying empathy: the construction of online peer support Carolina Figueras Bates
- 6. Understanding affective aspects of Chinese relational practice: from the perspective of 'heart' and 'face' Yongping Ran and Linlin Fan
- 7. Emotive politeness and communication styles: leave-taking in British and Russian interpersonal interaction Tatiana Larina
- 8. Laughter and embarrassment in a complicated task Shelby R. Miller, Hilal Ergül and Salvatore Attardo
- Part III. Emotion and Morality:
- 9. The Institutional relevance of emotions: moral-nexus effects in the courtroom Isolda E. Carranza
- 10. Displaying embarrassment as social action in business interactions Wei-Lin Melody Chang and Michael Haugh
- 11. 'I'm so angry!' taking offence in calls to an insurance company Carmen SantamarÃa-GarcÃa
- Epilogue:
- 12. Revisiting the sociopragmatics of emotions Miriam A. Locher.
