Interest in human emotion no longer equates to unscientific speculation. 21st-century humanities scholars are paying serious attention to our capacity to expres

This book presents both the state of the art and the latest research in an effort to unravel the various workings of the expression of emotion in discourse

Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings together the study of communication and the social psychology of

This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in

The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional