Full Description
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis together with recent work on interactional storytelling, stylization, and multimodal analysis. By adopting a discursive approach to emotion in multilingual talk, the volume breaks with the dominant view of emotions as cognitive and intra-psychological phenomena and their study through self-report. Through detailed analyses of original recorded data, the chapters examine how participants produce emotion-implicative actions, identities, stances, and morality through their interactional work in ordinary face-to-face conversation, computer-mediated interaction, institutional talk in medical, educational, and broadcast media settings, and in research interviews. The volume addresses itself to students and researchers interested in language and emotion, multilingual speakers and settings, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
Contents
1. Transcription conventions: Based on Jefferson (2004); 2. Introduction: Contextualizing emotion in multilingual interaction: Theoretical and methodological perspectives (by Prior, Matthew T.); 3. Smiling together, laughing together: Multimodal resources projecting affect in L1/L2 conversational storytelling (by Lamb, Gavin); 4. Like Godzilla: Enactments and formulations in telling a disaster story in Japanese (by Burch, Alfred Rue); 5. Orienting to a co-participant's emotion in French L2: A resource to participate in and sustain a conversation (by Berger, Evelyne); 6. On doing Japanese awe in English talk (by Greer, Tim); 7. Emotional stances and interactional competence: Learning to calibrate disagreements, objections, and refusals (by Cekaite, Asta); 8. Negative self-categorization, stance, affect, and affiliation in autobiographical storytelling (by Sandhu, Priti); 9. Affective formulations in multilingual healthcare settings (by Farini, Federico); 10. Formulating and scaling emotionality in L2 qualitative research interviews (by Prior, Matthew T.); 11. 'It hurts to hear that': Representing the feelings of foreigners on Japanese television (by Furukawa, Gavin Ken); 12. Humor, laughter, and affect in multilingual comedy performances in Hawai'i (by Furukawa, Toshiaki); 13. The construction of emotion in multilingual computer-mediated interaction (by Gonzalez-Lloret, Marta); 14. Author index; 15. Subject index
