Book contents
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pragmatics and Emotion
- 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
- References
- Index
2 - Pragmatics and Emotion
The Challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2023
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Pragmatics and Emotion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pragmatics and Emotion
- 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
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces the two essential challenges in accommodating emotional communication within a theory of utterance interpretation: the challenge of description versus expression and the challenge of propositions and ineffability. We sketch the prehistory of philosophical thought and show how the sidelining of emotional communication in modern linguistic pragmatics is very much a consequence of the propositional foundations on which modern theories of semantics and pragmatics are built. Consequently, such theories have problems accounting for expression and ineffability. Two further challenges are also articulated. The first of these concerns the nature of the term pragmatics, and this chapter concludes with some background on what we mean by pragmatics in this book. The second concerns the nature of emotion itself: what is emotion? We turn to that challenge in the next chapter.
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- Pragmatics and Emotion , pp. 13 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023