The sociopragmatics of emotion / edited by Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alba-Juez, Laura, editor.

Haugh, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Social aspects.

Pragmatics.

Language and emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Emotion plays a critical role in every human interaction and permeates all social activity. Displaying, responding to, and talking about emotions is thus central to human language, communication, and social interaction. However, emotions are multidimensional, indeterminate, and inherently situated phenomena, which makes studying them in contextualised settings challenging for researchers. This groundbreaking book illustrates what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life, and sets out to lay the necessary foundations for a sociopragmatic theorisation of emotion. It brings together a renowned team of multidisciplinary scholars to demonstrate how evaluation, relationships, and morality are central to any account of emotions in discourse and interaction. It also exemplifies how a sociopragmatic approach to emotions pays more attention to the role that different discourse systems play in how emotions are expressed, interpreted, responded to, and talked about across different languages and cultures.

Contents:

Introduction: The sociopragmatics of emotion in discourse and interaction / Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh

Emotion and evaluation. Invoked emotions in times of coronavirus: a sociopragmatic analysis of the narratives of healthcare workers and victims of Covid19 in Spain during the lockdown / Laura Alba-Juez

The use of humour as an affiliative strategy in times of covid / Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Francisco Yus

Promoemotion in action: sci-tech marketing in university innovation portfolios / Carmen Sancho Guinda

Emotion and relationships. Doing emotions and displaying empathy: the construction of online peer support / Carolina Figueras Bates

Understanding affective aspects of Chinese relational practice: from the perspective of 'heart' and 'face' / Yongping Ran and Linlin Fan

Emotive politeness and communication styles: leave-taking in British and Russian interpersonal interaction / Tatiana Larina

Laughter and embarrassment in a complicated task / Shelby R. Miller, Hilal Erg{uml}ul and Salvatore Attardo

Emotion and morality. The institutional relevance of emotions: moral-nexus effects in the courtroom / Isolda E. Carranza

Displaying embarrassment as social action in business interactions / Wei-Lin Melody Chang and Michael Haugh

"I'm so angry!" Taking offence in calls to an insurance company / Carmen Santamaría-García

Epilogue: Revisiting the sociopragmatics of emotions / Miriam A. Locher.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Mar 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-36841-9

1-009-36844-3

1-009-36842-7

OCLC:

1518034302