ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a lively and comprehensive discussion of research on communication that takes place after a particular emotional episode. It examines how clients resist therapeutic suggestions, such as “let yourself cry,” and, in fact, hold emotions back. The expressive paradigm conceptualizes emotion as a substance that “leaks out” through an array of verbal and non-verbal manifestations and thus posits stable links between emotions and co-occurring cues. The conventional paradigm views emotion as the content of a message sent through a combination of verbal and non-verbal cues. The rhetorical paradigm sees emotional messages as phenomena that evolve in social context and rely on verbal and non-verbal cues to achieve social goals. Any investigation of linguistic phenomena, including that of the language of emotions, needs to be centrally concerned with the way the phenomena in question play out in multilingual and heteroglossic contexts.
