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University of Zululand
Expressing emotion: how emotion is encoded in language and the role of emotion during conflict transformation
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn this dissertation I present the results of an analysis of a study about how language encodes emotion and how emotion is used during negotiation. I review canonical literature on emotions, and come to the conclusion that there are no empirical grounds to identify a set number of emotions. It is more appropriate to distinguish particular mind-body states during which people experience subjective awarenesses that they term "emotions." I then go on to show that emotive awareness is so fundamental to humans that all language structures are involved in the encoding of emotive awarenesses that are expressed, in particular speech acts. Finally I look at the role of emotion during conflict transformation.
Author and committee
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- Wela, Vusumuzi Patrick
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- Klopper, R.M.