| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 169 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Pragmatics and emotion: the challenges -- 3. What is emotion? -- 4. From proto-pragmatics to pragmatics -- 5. Relevance theory, non-propositional content and ineffability -- 6. Beyond propositions -- 7. Emotion and evolution -- 8. Pragmatics and emotion: the challenges revisited |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Tim Wharton is a linguist based at the University of Brighton. Louis de Saussure is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel where he co-founded the Cognitive Science Centre |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pragmatics -- Psychological aspects
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Language and emotions.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saussure, Louis de, author.
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| ISBN |
9781108869867 |
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1108869866 |
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9781108876476 |
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1108876471 |
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