Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521557410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Four Stars good
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 emotion
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.