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How Emotions Are Made in Talk
Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 321] 2021
► pp. 27–50

Chapter 1.1
Emotional intensity as a resource for moral assessments

The action of ‘incitement’ in sports settings

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In interaction we take it that we should act with a certain appropriate degree of involvement with an activity – that is, one can ‘party hard’, but not ‘tea party hard’. To rephrase a common saying, it is not whether you win or lose but how you are seen as playing the game. To highlight this, the current chapter examines one form of encouragement in sports, highlighting the way in which ’arousal’ is constituted to be used as resource in interaction. Specifically, it describes incitement, used by participants to enact a normative moral frame of ‘effort’ in the course of an embodied sporting conduct. Contributing to Discursive Psychology’s program of research respecifying emotion as a member’s concern this chapter highlights the way in which participants treat proper amounts of arousal as a competitive resource in order to enact norms of effort in sporting settings.

Keywords: arousal, emotion, morality, Discursive Psychology, sport communication, pitch
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.An outline of the features of incitement
  • 3.Data
  • 4.Analysis
  • 5.Deviant case analysis: A Normative System
  • 6.People do things with emotions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.321.01rey
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