Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-ndmmz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-08T16:39:53.789Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

13 - Emotion in Intercultural Interactions

from Part II - Key Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Laura Alba-Juez
Edited by
Istvan Kecskes
Istvan Kecskes
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Albany
Get access

Summary

The expression of emotion in discourse (as defined in Alba-Juez and Mackenzie 2019) is treated from the perspective of intercultural pragmatics (as in, e.g, Kecskes 2004, 2011, 2014). Emotion is viewed as a pragmatic dynamical process that shows the interaction of brain-bodies-world (e.g. Van Gelder 1998, Gibbs 2010) and for that reason many aspects of its manifestation in different discourse systems/cultures are explored, taking into account not only the well-known fact that different languages and cultures may display differences in the expression of emotion at all linguistic levels (e.g. at the lexical level, a given language/culture may have a term to express an emotion that has not been conceptualized in another language (i.e. hypocognition, Levy 1973), being the cause of possible intercultural pragmalinguistic misunderstanding), but also the fact that different cultures may have different display rules (Ekman and Friesen 1975) and engage in different affective practices (Wetherell 2012), all of which may affect attempts to communicate when using a lingua franca. I argue in favor of a more comprehensive, socio-cognitive (e.g. Kecskes and Zhang 2009; Kecskes 2010) and sociopragmatic (Leech 1982, 2014) approach to the study of this kind of communication.

Keywords

emotioncultural expressionsinterculturall conflictslanguage and cultureintercultures
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics , pp. 334 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alba-Juez, L. (2018). Emotion and appraisal processes in language: How are they related? In González, Gómez, los Ángeles, Mª de, and Mackenzie, J. Lachlan, eds., The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 227–250. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.296.o9alb.Google Scholar
Alba-Juez, L. (2021). Affect and emotion. In Haugh, Michael, Kadar, Daniel, and Terkourafi, Marina, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 340–362.Google Scholar
Alba-Juez, L. and Alba-Juez, F. (2012). Identity, evaluation, and differential equations. Pragmatics and Cognition, 20(3), 570–592.Google Scholar
Alba-Juez, L. and Martínez Caro, E. (2017). Estudio comparativo de la “insubordinación” en inglés y en español, con especial énfasis en su función expresiva. Paper presented at the XlVI Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid: Center for Human and Social Sciences, pp. 24–27.Google Scholar
Alba-Juez, L. and Mackenzie, J. L. (2019). Emotion processes in discourse. In Mackenzie, J. L. and Alba-Juez, L., eds., Emotion in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Andor, J. (2018). Reflections on discourse and knowledge: An interview with Teun van Dijk. International Review of Pragmatics, 10, 109–146.Google Scholar
Bateson, M. C. (1975). Mother-infant exchanges: The epigenesis of conversation interaction. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 263, 101–113.Google Scholar
Bekoff, M. (2007). The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy ‒ and Why They Matter. Novato, CA: New World Library.Google Scholar
Blakemore, Diane (2011). On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(14), 3537–3550.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bosque, Ignacio (2010). Aspectos individuales y sociales de las emociones: Sobre la noción de “vergüenza” y sus variantes. Páginas de Guarda, 10, 13‒27.Google Scholar
Bosque, Ignacio (2016). Interview for the Emo-Fundett MOOC Language and Emotion at Work. Canal UNED, https://canal.uned.es/mmobj/index/id/51988.Google Scholar
Castro, B., Ángel, M., and Hidalgo-Tenorio, E. (2019). Rethinking Martin and White’s AFFECT taxonomy: A psychologically inspired approach to the linguistic expression of emotion. In Mackenzie, J. L. and Alba-Juez, L., eds., Emotion in Discourse. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 29-54.Google Scholar
Chang, W. M. and Haugh, M. (2017). Intercultural communicative competence and emotion amongst second language learners of Chinese. In Kecskes, I. and Sun, C.F., eds., Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research. London: Routledge, pp. 267–286.Google Scholar
Damasio, A. (2018). The Strange Order of Things. New York: Pantheon Books.Google Scholar
Darwin, Ch. (1872). The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray. http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1872_Expression_F1142.pdf.Google Scholar
De Gelda, B. (2016). Emotions and the Body. Oxford. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Dewaele, J. (2013). Emotions in Multiple Languages. London: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar
Dewaele, J. (2016): Self-reported frequency of swearing in English: Do situational, psychological and sociobiographical variables have similar effects on first and foreign language users? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38(4), 330–345. DOI:10.1080/01434632.2016.1201092.Google Scholar
Dewaele, J. (2018). Pragmatic challenges in the communication of emotions in intercultural couples. Intercultural Pragmatics, 15(1), 29–55.Google Scholar
Eckert, P. and McConnell-Ginet, S. (1992). Think practically and look locally: Language and gender as community-based practice. Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 461–490.Google Scholar
Eisenlohr, P. (2010). Materialities of entextualization: The domestication of sound reproduction in Mauritian Muslim devotional practices. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 20(2), 314–333.Google Scholar
Ekman, P. [2003] (2007). Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life. Revised ed. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.Google Scholar
Ekman, P. and Friesen, W. V. (1975). Unmasking the Face. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.Google Scholar
Ellsworth, P. C. and Scherer, K. (2003). Appraisal processes in emotion. In Davidson, R. J., Scherer, K. R., and Goldsmith, H. H., eds., The Handbook of Affective Sciences (Series in Affective Science). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 572–595.Google Scholar
Escandell-Vidal, V. (2017). Expectations in Interaction. In Allan, K., Capone, A., and Kecskes, I., eds., Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 493‒503.Google Scholar
Evans, N. (2007). Insubordination and its uses. In Nikolaeva, I., ed., Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 366–431.Google Scholar
Filani, I. (2021). The stand-up comedian as an egocentric communicator. Intercultural Pragmatics, 18(1), 1–23.Google Scholar
Foolen, A. (2012). The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics. In Foolen, Ad, Lüdtke, Ulrike M., Racine, Timothy P., and Zlatev, Jordan, eds., Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and Emotion in Intersubjectivity, Consciousness and Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 349‒368.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Foolen, A. (2017). Expressives. In de Stadler, L. and Eyrich, C., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Semantics. London: Routledge, pp. 473–490.Google Scholar
Frijda, N. H. (1998). The laws of emotion. American Psychologist, 43(5), 349–358.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Geeraerts, D. and Grondelaers, S. (1995). Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns. In Taylor, J. and MacLaury, R. E., eds., Language and the Construal of the World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 153–180.Google Scholar
Gibbs, R. W., Jr. (2010). Can there be a pragmatic theory of the entire world? Plenary talk given at the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, Albany, NY.Google Scholar
Hareli, S., Kafetsios, K., and Hess, U. (2015). A cross-cultural study on emotion expression and the learning of social norms. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (1501), 1–12.Google Scholar
Härtel, C. E. and Härtel, G. F. (2005). Cross-cultural differences in emotions: The why and how. Social Science Information, 44, 683–693.Google Scholar
Haugh, M. (2017). Intercultural pragmatics. In Kim, Y. Y. and McKay-Semmler, K. L., eds., The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.Google Scholar
Hofstede, G. (1995). The business of international business is culture. In Jackson, T., ed., Cross-Cultural Management. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, pp. 150–165.Google Scholar
Holliday, Adrian (1999). Small cultures. Applied Linguistics, 20, 237–264.Google Scholar
Kádár, D. Z. and House, J. (2020). Ritual frames: A contrastive pragmatic approach. Pragmatics, 30(1),142–168.Google Scholar
Kádár, D. Z. and Szalai, A. (2020). The socialization of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in Romani. Pragmatics, 30(1), 15–39.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2004). Lexical merging, conceptual blending, cultural crossing. Intercultural Pragmatics, (1), 1–26.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2010). The paradox of communication: A socio-cognitive approach. Pragmatics and Society, 1(1), 50–73.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2011). Intercultural pragmatics. In Archer, Dawn and Grundy, Peter, eds., Pragmatics Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 371–387.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2014). Intercultural Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2019). Impoverished pragmatics? The semantics-pragmatics interface from an intercultural perspective. Intercultural Pragmatics, 16(5), 489–515.Google Scholar
Kecskes, I. (2020). Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics. In Jackson, J., ed., The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Communication, rev. ed. London: Routledge, pp. 138–155.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kecskes, I. and Zhang, F.. (2009). Activating, seeking and creating common ground: A socio-cognitive approach. Pragmatics and Cognition, 17(2), 331–355.Google Scholar
Kozan, M. K. and Ergin, C. (1998). Preference for the third party help in conflict management in the United States and Turkey: An experimental study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29(4), 525–539.Google Scholar
Kundera, Milan (1980). The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. New York: Harper Collins.Google Scholar
Lakoff, George (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Labov, William (1972). Rules for ritual insults. In Sudnow, D., ed., Studies in Social Interaction. New York: Free Press, pp. 297–353.Google Scholar
Leech, Geoffrey (1983). Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Leech, Geoffrey (2014). The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Levy, Robert (1973). Tahitians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Lüdtke, Ulrike M. (2015). Introduction: From logos to dialogue. In Lüdtke, Ulrike M., Emotion in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. vii–xi.Google Scholar
Mackenzie, J. L. and Alba-Juez, L. (eds.) (2019). Emotion in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Marra, M. and Holmes, J. (2007). Humour across cultures: Joking in the multicultural workplace. In Kotthoff, H. and Spencer-Oatey, H., eds., Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 153–172.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, J. R. and White, P. R. R. (2005). The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar
Martínez Caro, Elena & Laura Alba-Juez (2021). The expressive function of the ni que insubordinate construction in Spanish. In Languages, Special Issue “Key Aspects of 21st Century Informal Interactions: Socio-Pragmatic and Formal Features”, 2021, 6, 161. 1–17.Google Scholar
Matsumoto, D., Leroux, J. and Yoo, S. E. (2005). Emotion and intercultural communication. Kwansei Gakuin Sociology Department Studies, 99, 15–38.Google Scholar
Matsumoto, D., Yoo, S. E., and Leroux, J. (2007). Emotion and intercultural adjustment. In Kotthoff, H. and Spencer-Oatey, H., eds., Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 77–98.Google Scholar
Myers, D. G. (2004). Theories of Emotion in Psychology. 7th ed. New York: Worth.Google Scholar
Pacheco Baldó, R. M. (2020). American individualism and masculinity? The case of nursing homes. Journal for Cultural Research, 24(4), 301–314.Google Scholar
Parr, L. A. (2001). Cognitive and physiological markers of emotional awareness in chimpanzees. Animal Cognition, 4(3–4), 223–229.Google Scholar
Piller, I. (2012). Intercultural communication: An overview. In Paulston, Christina Bratt, Kiesling, Scott F., and Rangel, Elizabeth S., eds., The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication. London: Blackwell Publishing.Google Scholar
Pinker, S. [1997] (2015). How the Mind Works. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
Sansiñena, M., de Smet, H., and Cornillie, B. (2015). Between subordinate and insubordinate. Paths towards complementizer-initial main clauses. Journal of Pragmatics, 77, 3–19.Google Scholar
Saul, J. M. (2002). Speaker meaning, what is said, and what is implicated. Nous, 36(2), 228–248.Google Scholar
Schnoebelen, T. (2012). Emotions are relational: Positioning and the use of affective linguistic resources. PhD dissertation, Stanford University.Google Scholar
Schwarz-Friesel, M. (2010). Expressive Bedeutung und E-Implikaturen – Zur Relevanz konzeptueller Bewertungen bei indirekten Sprechakten: Das Streichbarkeitskriterium und seine kognitive Realität. In Rudnitzky, William, ed., Kultura Kak Tekst (Kultur als Text). Moscow: SGT, pp. 12–27.Google Scholar
Schwarz-Friesel, M. (2015). Language and emotion: The cognitive linguistic perspective. In Lüdtke, Ulrike M., Emotion in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 157‒173.Google Scholar
Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., and Jones, R. H. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Shakovsky, V. I. (2016). Dissonance in Communicative Sustainability: People, Language, Emotions. Volgograd: IP Polikarpov Publications.Google Scholar
Spencer-Rogers, J. and McGovern, T. (2002). Attitudes toward the culturally different: The role of intercultural communication barriers, affective responses, consensual stereotypes, and perceived threat. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 26(6), 609–631.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Summerfield, C. and Egner, T. (2009). Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(9), 403–409. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.06.003.Google Scholar
Taboada, M. (2016). Sentiment analysis: An overview from linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2(8), 1–23.Google Scholar
Ten Thije, J. D. (2006). Beyond misunderstanding: Introduction. In Bührig, Kristin and ten Thije, Jan D., eds., Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic Analyses of Intercultural Communication. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 1–8.Google Scholar
Terkourafi, M. (2001). Politeness in Cypriot Greek: A frame-based approach. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, Department of Linguistics.Google Scholar
Thompson, G. (2014). AFFECT and emotion, target-value mismatches, and Russian dolls: Refining the APPRAISAL model. In Thompson, G. and Alba-Juez, L., eds., Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 47–66.Google Scholar
Thompson, G. and Alba-Juez, L. (eds.) (2014). Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Trevarthen, C. (1979). Instincts from human understanding and for cultural cooperation: Their development in infancy. In Cranach, M. V., Foppa, K., Lepenies, W., and Ploog, D., eds., Human Ethnology: Claims and Limits of a New Discipline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 530–571.Google Scholar
Urban, G. and Urban, J. N. K. (2020). Affect in the circulation of cultural forms. In Pritzker, Sonya E., Fenigsen, Janina, and Wilce, James M., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion. Oxford and New York: Routledge, pp. 75–99.Google Scholar
van Geert, P. (2008). The dynamic systems approach in the study of L1 and L2 acquisition: An introduction, The Modern Language Journal, 92(2), 179–199.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Geert, P. and Verspoor, M. (2015). Dynamic systems and language development. In MacWhinney, B. and O’Grady, W., eds., The Handbook of Language Emergence. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 537–555.Google Scholar
Van Gelder, T. (1998). The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 615–665.Google Scholar
Watson, J. B. (1930). Behaviorism, rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Weaver, W. G. (1998). Corporations as intentional systems. Journal of Business Ethics, 17, 87–97.Google Scholar
Wetherell, M. (2012). Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding. London: Sage.Google Scholar
Wierzbicka, A. (2003). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar
Wu, G. (2018). Official websites as a tourism marketing medium: A contrastive analysis from the perspective of appraisal theory. Journal of Destination, Marketing and Management, 10, 164–171.Google Scholar
Xinghua, L. and Thompson, P. (2009). University of Reading Language Studies Working Papers, 1, 3–15.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×