It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that 'the head' and 'the heart' are two opposing forces, a view that has led scholars, until now, to explore the mental processes behind cognition, and the mental processes behind emotion, as two separate entities. This bold, innovative book challenges this view, and provides an original study of how we communicate our emotions through language, drawing on both pragmatic theory and affective science. It begins with the assumption that emotional or expressive meaning plays such a central role in human interaction that any pragmatic theory worth its salt must account for it. It meets the associated challenges head-on and strives to integrate affect within one theory of utterance interpretation, showing that emotional meaning and rationality/reasoning can be analysed within one framework. Written in a clear and concise style, it is essential reading for anyone interested in communication and emotion.
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'Wharton and de Saussure's Pragmatics and Emotion is a stimulating read and provides much food for thought. They convincingly argue the centrality of emotions to human experience and to language usage, despite perennial neglect throughout the history of Western philosophy. Their modifications of Relevance Theory are no doubt a welcome contribution to the field, and this book will be of interest not only to those working in linguistic pragmatics, but also those with an interest in the philosophy of language, evolutionary psychology, and the cognitive sciences more broadly.' Richard J. Whitt, John Benjamins e-Platform
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Drawing from cognitive pragmatics and emotion studies, this bold, innovative book explores how we communicate our emotions through language.
1. Introduction: 1.1 Prolegomena; 1.2 Clocks and clouds; 1.3 Overview;
1.3.1
Chapter two; 1.3.2
Chapter three; 1.3.3
Chapter four; 1.3.4
Chapter
five; 1.3.5
Chapter six; 1.3.6
Chapter seven; 1.3.7
Chapter eight.
2.
Pragmatics and emotion the challenges: 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Two
challenges; 2.2.1 Description versus expression; 2.2.2 Propositions and
ineffability; 2.3 Pragmatics.
3. What is emotion?: 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The
early history of emotion studies; 3.2.1 Aristotle to Hume; 3.2.2 Charles
Darwin and William James; 3.3 Affective science; 3.3.1 Three views; 3.3.2
Basic emotion; 3.3.3 Constructed emotion; 3.3.4 The view from appraisal
theory.
4. From proto-pragmatics to pragmatics: 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Towards
expressive meaning; 4.3 Bally's parole; 4.4 Speech acts: how to do things
with words (and emotional expressions); 4.5 Alternatives.
5. Relevance
theory, nonpropositional content and ineffability: 5.1 Introduction; 5.2
Relevance; 5.2.1 Theory; 5.2.2 Applications, concepts, procedures; 5.2.3
Ineffability; 5.3 Two notions of relevance?
6. Beyond propositions: 6.1
Introduction; 6.2 Affective effects; 6.2.1 Primary affective effects; 6.2.2
Secondary affective effects: emotion and poetry; 6.2.3 Affective effects and
persuasion.
7. Emotion and evolution: 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Creature
construction; 7.2.1 Pirot #1: the sea-sponge; 7.2.1 Towards a sensorium: the
direct route; 7.2.3 Pirot #2: the lizard and emotion; 7.2.4 Humean
projection: the indirect route.
8. Pragmatics and emotion the challenges
revisited: 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Two challenges; 8.2.1 Expressing and
describing; 8.2.2 Propositions and ineffability; 8.3 Pragmatics and emotion
closing remarks.
Tim Wharton is a linguist based at the University of Brighton. His research explores territories beyond those regarded as the 'traditional' fields of linguists and as a result, he has worked with poets, artists, clinicians, designers and even mathematicians to expand the boundaries of linguistic pragmatics. Louis de Saussure is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) where he co-founded the Cognitive Science Centre. He has published extensively in semantics, in pragmatics and in discourse analysis.
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