Emotions and discourse

Abstract

Emotions have increasingly become the object of systematic sociological inquiry. Due to their special nature, a number of methodological problems accrue to the task of making emotions accessible to analysis. This article presents the results of an inquiry into the ways in which emotions are expressed in narratives and conversation. Conversations involving positive and negative set-feelings are analyzed in regard to paralinguistic markers. These markers are presented and discussed, and the ways in which markers of this kind can be interpreted in regard to the analysis of interview material are also considered