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Chapter 9. My anger was justified surely?

Epistemic markers across British English and German Emotion Events

Abstract

In this chapter, I explore the role of epistemic markers as sub-units of analysis in Emotion Events, in particular ANGER events, from a cross-linguistic perspective. The corpus study extends the Emotion Event Model and reports on findings based on 248 written narratives experimentally elicited from British English and German university students. Overall, German writers displayed more ANGER events than the British and males used more epistemic markers than females. In the British Emotion Events, more markers of ‘low’ certainty were used in contrast to more markers of ‘high’ certainty in the German ones. The findings underline the importance of epistemic markers for the modeling of emotion discourse.

Abstract

In this chapter, I explore the role of epistemic markers as sub-units of analysis in Emotion Events, in particular ANGER events, from a cross-linguistic perspective. The corpus study extends the Emotion Event Model and reports on findings based on 248 written narratives experimentally elicited from British English and German university students. Overall, German writers displayed more ANGER events than the British and males used more epistemic markers than females. In the British Emotion Events, more markers of ‘low’ certainty were used in contrast to more markers of ‘high’ certainty in the German ones. The findings underline the importance of epistemic markers for the modeling of emotion discourse.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Emotion processes in discourse 3
  6. Section I. Emotion, syntax and the lexicon
  7. Chapter 2. The multifunctionality of swear/taboo words in television series 29
  8. Chapter 3. The syntax of an emotional expletive in English 55
  9. Chapter 4. Interjections and emotions 87
  10. Chapter 5. Expressing emotions without emotional lexis 113
  11. Chapter 6. The value of left and right 139
  12. Section II. Pragmatics and emotion
  13. Chapter 7. A cognitive pragmatics of the phatic Internet 161
  14. Chapter 8. Humor and mirth 189
  15. Chapter 9. My anger was justified surely? 213
  16. Section III. Interdisciplinary studies
  17. Chapter 10. Emotion and language ‘at work’ 247
  18. Chapter 11. The effects of linguistic proficiency, Trait Emotional Intelligence and in-group advantage on emotion recognition by British and American English L1 users 279
  19. Chapter 12. Rethinking Martin & White’s affect taxonomy 301
  20. Section IV. Emotion in different discourse types
  21. Chapter 13. Victims, heroes and villains in newsbites 335
  22. Chapter 14. Promoemotional science? 357
  23. Name index 387
  24. Subject index 395
Emotion in Discourse
This chapter is in the book Emotion in Discourse
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.302.09fro

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Emotion processes in discourse 3
  6. Section I. Emotion, syntax and the lexicon
  7. Chapter 2. The multifunctionality of swear/taboo words in television series 29
  8. Chapter 3. The syntax of an emotional expletive in English 55
  9. Chapter 4. Interjections and emotions 87
  10. Chapter 5. Expressing emotions without emotional lexis 113
  11. Chapter 6. The value of left and right 139
  12. Section II. Pragmatics and emotion
  13. Chapter 7. A cognitive pragmatics of the phatic Internet 161
  14. Chapter 8. Humor and mirth 189
  15. Chapter 9. My anger was justified surely? 213
  16. Section III. Interdisciplinary studies
  17. Chapter 10. Emotion and language ‘at work’ 247
  18. Chapter 11. The effects of linguistic proficiency, Trait Emotional Intelligence and in-group advantage on emotion recognition by British and American English L1 users 279
  19. Chapter 12. Rethinking Martin & White’s affect taxonomy 301
  20. Section IV. Emotion in different discourse types
  21. Chapter 13. Victims, heroes and villains in newsbites 335
  22. Chapter 14. Promoemotional science? 357
  23. Name index 387
  24. Subject index 395
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