ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how teachers and students enact emotions and embodied action as languaging actions as central to engaging students in interaction with each other or in responding to and creating texts for creating supportive relations with others. This includes the ability to listen to others to identify certain emotions that are being enacted in an event as well as an awareness of the relational framing of that event based on certain emotions as constituted by certain moral/ethical norms. It also includes an awareness of how the use of certain words serve to evoke certain emotions. Students can use narratives to portray and reflect on how their emotions as languaging shape relations with others. Students also employ embodied actions through gestures, expressions, or bodily positioning as languaging to convey certain meanings to others, as well as through use of shared humor/laughter. The meanings of these embodied actions can vary according to norms constituting race, class, and gender difference; for example, how enactment of class status can occur through embodied actions.
