Pragmatics and emotion / Tim Wharton, University of Brighton ; Louis de Saussure, Université de Neuchâtel.

"It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that 'the head' and 'the heart' are two opposing forces, a view that has led scholars, until now, to explore the mental processes behind cognition, and the mental processes behind emotion, as two separate entities...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Wharton, Tim (Author), Saussure, Louis de (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pragmatics and emotion: the challenges
  • 3. What is emotion?
  • 4. From proto-pragmatics to pragmatics
  • 5. Relevance theory, non-propositional content and ineffability
  • 6. Beyond propositions
  • 7. Emotion and evolution
  • 8. Pragmatics and emotion: the challenges revisited.