Diegoli E. Tim Wharton, & Louis De Saussure, Pragmatics and Emotion.

Within pragmatics, emotions have long been marginalised because they were thought to be too intangible to be captured in propositional terms, and only recently have researchers begun to recognise their role in human cognitive processes and social behaviour. Pragmatics and Emotion makes a valuable contribution to linguistics and affective sciences alike by offering one of the first in-depth studies on the role of emotions from the perspective of pragmatic theories. The book consists of one introductory chapter, followed by seven chapters that first provide the readers with some historical and theoretical background, and then offer an original perspective that accounts for the role of emotion in the process of meaning production and inferencing.