Table of contents
Foreword1
Part I. Addressing the complex
Emotions: The simple and the complex7
Universality vs. culture-specificity of emotion27
Emotions in language and communication37
Emotions, language, and context59
Body, passions and race in classical theories of language and emotion77
Part II. Communicative means for expressing emotions
Interjections in a contrastive perspective103
When did we start feeling guilty?125
Joy, astonishment and fear in English, German and Russian: A corpus-based contrastive-semantic analysis167
Ambivalence as a dialogic frame of emotions in conflict183
Part III. Emotional principles in dialogue
The Role of Emotions in Normative Discourse and Persuasion207
Anticipation of public emotions in TV debates225
Interpreting emotions in literary dialogue245
The author-reader-text emotional bond in the literary action game259
On the inseparability of emotion and reason in argumentation269
General index281
List of contributors
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