Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The temporality of surprise
5. Chapter 1. Neurophenomenology of surprise 9
6. Chapter 2. Shock, twofold dynamics, cascade 23
7. Chapter 3. The representation of surprise in English and the retroactive construction of possible paths 43
8. Part II. Verbal interaction and action
9. Chapter 4. Encoding surprise in English novels 59
10. Chapter 5. How implicit is surprise? 77
11. Chapter 6. Surprise in native, bilingual and non-native spontaneous and stimulated recall speech 91
12. Part III. Emotional experience, expression and description
13. Chapter 7. Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English 117
14. Chapter 8. Looking at ‘unexpectedness’ 139
15. Chapter 9. Is surprise necessarily disappointing? 171
16. Index 181