Abstract:
As a topic in second language studies, emotions have been investigated
from a variety of perspectives: as "individual difference" variables, as
goal and process in language socialization, as matters of multilingual
speakers' competencies, or as experiences available through learner
narratives. This seminar examines emotion talk in a second language
through the lens of discursive psychology. By analyzing emotions as
interactional and rhetorical constructions, it becomes possible to show
how participants engage emotion talk to accomplish social activities
such as assigning blame, claiming and rejecting identities, and
defending their moral integrity.
About the speaker
A brief CV of Dr. Kasper is available here:
::http://www.hawaii.edu/sls/faculty/kasper/::
