We invite conference presentations that address the following issues:
- Affect and the so-called “affective turn”
- Emotions and reader response/reception theory
- Literary history/history of aesthetics relating to emotions
- Sentimentalism and/or melodrama
- History of emotions
- The aesthetics of ecstasy, rapture, and/or transcendence
- Queer affectivity
- Verbal expression of emotion (emotion words, interjections, intensifiers, affective stance marking, etc.) in English
- Expressive/affective/emotional meaning
- Emotions in interpersonal pragmatics: politeness, impoliteness, relational work
- Emotionality in discourse (media, political discourse, advertising, etc.)
- Language attitudes and language judgments
- Multimodal displays of emotion and feeling
- Emotional expression in social, regional, historical varieties of English
- Emotional factors in first and second language acquisition
- The linguistic construction of emotion concepts (linguistic relativity of emotional vocabularies and emotion concepts)
- Affective piety
- Emotion and gender
- Emotion and the body, embodied emotions
- Emotion and performance, inscribing one’s body with meaning through an emotional demonstration
- Textual or visual props as emotional triggers
- Affectivity and medieval religious orders
- Policing emotion: accepted and rejected emotional behaviour
- Public / private emotion: the publicity of emotion
- Emotional communities
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: JANUARY 15, 2013
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