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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics
Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 11] 2019
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction 1
Part I.The temporality of surprise: A dynamic process opening up possibilities 7
Chapter 1.Neurophenomenology of surprise 9
Chapter 2.Shock, twofold dynamics, cascade: Three signatures of surprise. The micro-time of the surprised body 23
Chapter 3.The representation of surprise in English and the retroactive construction of possible paths 43
Part II.Verbal interaction and action 57
Chapter 4.Encoding surprise in English novels: An enunciative approach 59
Chapter 5.How implicit is surprise? Confronting a phenomenological description with a radical pragmatist approach 77
Chapter 6.Surprise in native, bilingual and non-native spontaneous and stimulated recall speech 91
Part III.Emotional experience, expression and description 115
Chapter 7.Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English 117
Chapter 8.Looking at ‘unexpectedness’: A corpus-based cognitive analysis of surprise & wonder 139
Chapter 9.Is surprise necessarily disappointing? 171
Index 181


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