How Emotions Are Made in Talk
Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] 2021. xvii, 292 pp.
Jessica S. Robles
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica S. Robles plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
2024 How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article analyzes online comments responding to viral sociopolitical events in different languages, across different social media platforms. We use discourse analytic methods to inspect how quotation marks are systematically deployed to intensify denigrations of opposing political identities… read more
2021 Perpetuating ableist constructions of the “real world” through complaints about new communication technologies Dialogic Matters: Interrelating Dialogue, the Material, and Social Change, Castor, Theresa (ed.), pp. 35–58 | Article
Complaints about the use of new communication technologies are frequent in public discourse and work within a broader assemblage of discourses that promote selective ideologies. What is it that people are doing when they produce these complaints, and how might acts of complaining promote equity… read more
2021 Chapter 2.1. Using objects and technologies in the immediate environment as resources for managing affect displays in troubles talk How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. and Ann Weatherall (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Chapter
This chapter shows how the communicative affordances of material objects in the local environments, including mobile phones and laptops, provide resources for participants to manage displays of affect during troubles talk, including potentially enacting or resisting affiliative recipiency.… read more
2021 How emotions are made to do things: An introduction How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. and Ann Weatherall (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
2017 Misunderstanding as a resource in interaction Pragmatics 27:1, pp. 57–86 | Article
The phenomenon of misunderstanding is a recurrent feature of everyday life – sometimes a source of frustration, sometimes a site of blame. But misunderstandings can also be seen as getting interactants out of (as well as into) trouble. For example, misunderstandings may be produced to deal with… read more