Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes

by Sally Planalp

Overview

The central argument of this book is that emotion is meaningful and meaning is emotional. The modern world is forcing us to understand emotion in order to cope with new problems such as road rage and epidemic levels of depression, as well as age-old problems such as homicide, genocide and racial tension. This book draws on scholarly research to address, explain and legitimize the role that emotion plays in everyday interaction and in many of the pressing social, moral, and cultural issues that we face today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521553155
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/13/1999
Series:	Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. How important is emotion in everyday life?; 2. How much skill is involved in communicating emotion?; 3. Is emotional communication spontaneous or strategic?; 4. How is emotional meaning constructed through communication?; 5. How is emotional meaning both personal and social?; 6. How do emotion messages communicate moral meaning?; 7. How is emotional communication founded in common human experience and diverse cultures?

Editorial Reviews

"...this is a thought-provoking book, rich in the issues that are taken up and in the perspectives considered." Nico H. Frijda, Contemporary Psychology

"...well-reasoned and appropriately qualified. I would suggest Planalp's Communicating Emotion, as a first read for anyone seeking to learn more about emotion and communication. It is unique in its ability to pull together for the Communication scholar diverse and complex literatures in an accurate and readable fashion....[Planalp's] book does insure that future researchers in this area will proceed with a clear understanding of the complex tapestry that are trying to unravel." Mark Knapp, Quarterly Journal of Speech

"Communicating Emotion is a cleverly-crafted and beautifully-written book that draws on a number of disciplines including psychology, communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, and even management, in an attempt to bring order to, and make sense of, the literature on human emotion and emotional behavior." Julie Fitness, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

"Communicating Emotion is a cleverly-crafted and beautifully-written book that draws on a number of disciplines including psychology, communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, and even management, in an attempt to bring order to, and make sense of, the literature on human emotion and emotional behavior." Julie Fitness, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

"Anyone interested in the field of emotion communication...will gain clarity as well as valuable information from this book. In addition, it is a pleasure to read. Planalp writes in a lively, mobile style and with an appealing moral involvement in the topic." Contemporary Psychology

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