Chapter published in:
Emotion in DiscourseEdited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Laura Alba-Juez
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 302] 2019
► pp. 213–244
My anger was justified surely?
Epistemic markers across British English and German Emotion Events
Nina-Maria Fronhofer | University of Augsburg (Germany)
In this chapter, I explore the role of epistemic markers as sub-units of analysis in Emotion Events, in particular ANGER events, from a cross-linguistic perspective. The corpus study extends the Emotion Event Model and reports on findings based on 248 written narratives experimentally elicited from British English and German university students. Overall, German writers displayed more ANGER events than the British and males used more epistemic markers than females. In the British Emotion Events, more markers of ‘low’ certainty were used in contrast to more markers of ‘high’ certainty in the German ones. The findings underline the importance of epistemic markers for the modeling of emotion discourse.
Keywords: Emotion Event, epistemic markers, intersubjective positioning, contrastive discourse analysis, corpus linguistics
Published online: 27 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.302.09fro
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.302.09fro
References
References
Alba-Juez, Laura
Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
Baayen, R. Harald
Bates, Douglas, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker & Steve Walker
Benítez-Castro, Miguel-Angel & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
This volume. “Rethinking Martin & White’s Affect Taxonomy: A Psychologically-Inspired Approach to the Linguistic Expression of Emotion.”
Becker, Anette
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana & Elite Olshtain
Bognelli, Ramona & Andrzej Zuczkowski
Burnham, Kenneth P. & David R. Anderson
Clyne, Michael
Coates, Jennifer
Downing, Angela
Dziwirek, Katarzyna & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara
Eckart de Castilho, Richard, Éva Mújdricza-Maydt, Seid M. Yimam, Silvana Hartmann, Iryna Gurevych, Anette Frank & Chris Biemann
Fauconnier, Gilles & Mark Turner
Fetzer, Anita
Fetzer, Anita & Marjut Johansson
Fronhofer, Nina-Maria
Accepted. “So Angry or Slightly Irritated of Sorts – ANGER Events in British English and German.” In Proceedings of “Emotion Concepts in Use”, Workshop at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
In preparation. Emotion Concepts in Context. A Contrastive Analysis of British English and German Discourse.
Givón, Talmy
Gries, Stefan Th
Gumperz, J. John
Halliday, M. A. K. & Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
House, Juliane
Huddleston, Rodney & Geoffrey K. Pullum
Hunston, Susan
Johnson-Laird, Phil & Keith Oatley
Kövecses, Zoltan
Krawczak, Karolina & Dylan Glynn
Krzeszowski, Tomasz
Lakoff, George
Lampropoulou, Martha
Langacker, Ronald W.
Levshina, Natalia
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara & Katarzyna Dziwirek
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara & Paul Wilson
Majid, Asifa
Markkanen, Raija & Hartmut Schröder
Martin, James R. & Peter R. R. White
Oatley, Keith, Dacher Keltner & Jennifer M. Jenkins
Pavlenko, Aneta
Planalp, Sally
Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik
R Core Team
2017 R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna. URL: http://www.R-project.org/.
Schwarz-Friesel, Monika
Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie & Karin Aijmer
Taboada, Maite, Marta Carretero & Jennifer Hinnell
Vološinov, Valentin N.
Watzlawick, Paul, Janet B. Bavelas & Don D. Jackson
White, Peter R.R.