Universality vs. culture-specificity of emotion

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Part I. Addressing the complex
6. Emotions 3
7. Universality vs. culture-specificity of emotion 23
8. Emotions in language and communication 33
9. Emotions, language, and context 55
10. Body, passions and race in classical theories of language and emotion 73
11. Part II. Communicative means for expressing emotions
12. Interjections in a contrastive perspective 99
13. When did we start feeling guilty? 121
14. Joy, astonishment and fear in English, German and Russian 163
15. Ambivalence as a dialogic frame of emotions in conflict 179
16. Part III. Emotional principles in dialogue
17. The Role of Emotions in Normative Discourse and Persuasion 207
18. Anticipation of public emotions in TV debates 221
19. Interpreting emotions in literary dialogue 241
20. The author-reader-text emotional bond in the literary action game 255
21. On the inseparability of emotion and reason in argumentation 265
22. General index 277