Gestures and the phenomenology of emotion in narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3207746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Young (0000-0002-3614-4722, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 79-112 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/semi.2000.131.1-2.79 |
| OpenAlex | W2072585125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Emotion in narrativeHow are narratives inflected with emotion?Some narrators imbue their stories with emotion effects intended to arouse a response in their recipients (Warhol 1992: 116_120).1In those instances, we would be concerned with the rhetoric of persuasion (Burke 1974a(Burke [1945(Burke ], 1974b(Burke [1950]]) and reader/hearer reception theory (Iser 1972).But some nar ratives appear to be imbued with emotion for their tellers.These are characteristically personal experience narratives (Labov 1972: 354-396) but they might include any narrative in which the narrator takes the position of the central character (Rimmon-Kenan 1984: 74)2 Hearers, insofar as they are aligned with that character, may be susceptible to the same access of emotion.3Personal experience narratives bring forward the possibility that the narrator is not just representing emotions but expressing emotions, not that she is expressing the emotions she had on the occasion narrated, which would be a form of representation, but that she is having the emotions she had on that occasion, which would be a form of embodied experience.So the question is, do nar ratives configure emotions in their tellers (and hearers) or are narratives constructed in such a way as to get access to emotions configured elsewhere?A conventional psychology of emotion would hold either that the authentic originary site for emotions evoked in the teller by the story is the occasion in the past on which the events recounted in the story transpired, or that the original emotions persist as an unconscious state and are triggered by the telling.On the first theory, the narrative retrieves the emotion from the past; on the second, the narrative taps into emotion in the unconscious.On both theories, emotion is configured elsewhere, in the past or in the unconscious, and maintained there until the narrative allows it to break through into the narrator's present consciousness
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Gesture · Linguistics · Narrative · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Semiotics · Categorization, perception, and language · Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |