This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Emotion in Dialogic Interaction at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of emotion in dialogic interaction is mostly addressed by reducing the complex and separating emotions or defining them by means of simple artificial units. The innovative claim of the workshop was to analyse emotion as an integrated component of human behaviour in dialogic interaction as demonstrated by recent findings in neurology and to develop a linguistic model which is able to deal with the complex integrated whole. Specific emphasis was laid on communicative means for expressing emotions and on emotional principles in dialogue. Furthermore, the issue of specific European principles for dealing with emotions was highlighted.
1. Foreword;
2. Part I. Addressing the complex;
3. Emotions: The simple
and the complex (by Weigand, Edda);
4. Universality vs. culture-specificity
of emotion (by Danes, Frantisek);
5. Emotions in language and communication
(by Cmejrkova, Svetla);
6. Emotions, language, and context (by Bazzanella,
Carla);
7. Body, passions and race in classical theories of language and
emotion (by Joseph, John E.);
8. Part II. Communicative means for expressing
emotions;
9. Interjections in a contrastive perspective (by Aijmer, Karin);
10. When did we start feeling guilty? (by Teubert, Wolfgang);
11. Joy,
astonishment and fear in English, German and Russian: A corpus-based
contrastive-semantic analysis (by Dem'jankov, Valerij);
12. Ambivalence as a
dialogic frame of emotions in conflict (by Stamenov, Maxim I.);
13. Part III.
Emotional principles in dialogue;
14. The Role of Emotions in Normative
Discourse and Persuasion (by Walrod, Michael R.);
15. Anticipation of public
emotions in TV debates (by Bollow, Jorn);
16. Interpreting emotions in
literary dialogue (by Weizman, Elda);
17. The author-reader-text emotional
bond in the literary action game (by Sovran, Tamar);
18. On the
inseparability of emotion and reason in argumentation (by Plantin,
Christian);
19. General index;
20. List of contributors
