35.2357, Books: Significant Emotions: Frawley (2023)

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Date: 30-Aug-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Significant Emotions: Frawley (2023)


Title: Significant Emotions
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/significant-emotions-9781350026797/

Author: Ashley Frawley
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350026803 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 65
Paperback: ISBN: 9781350026797 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:

Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of
emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an
increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas
developed in Ashley Frawley's previous book, Semiotics of Happiness,
it examines in detail the 'emotional turn' across the social sciences
and the broader cultural rise of the 'age of emotion' and its
influence on how we talk about and approach new social issues.

The book explores the rise of supposedly 'positive' emotional
signifiers that have gained prominence as powerful causes of and
solutions to nearly every social ill-from promoting self-esteem,
happiness and mindfulness to concerns for well-being and mental
health. Conceptualizing the rise and comparative decline of these
emotional signifiers as cycles of discovery, adoption, expansion, and
exhaustion, the book argues that rather than calling into question one
or another of these signifiers, it is necessary to penetrate deeper to
the underlying cultural currents that drive their adoption and
contribute to their rhetorical power.

Through a systematic and in-depth exploration of the appearance of
these trends in a variety of claims-making activities across academia,
traditional and social media, and social policy, Frawley argues that
the 'age of emotion' does not represent a step toward a more
enlightened and emotionally aware society. Rather, it signifies a
preoccupation with emotional deficits and a firm belief that emotional
disorientation ultimately underlies nearly every social ill. Emerging
from the analysis is the conclusion that emotions have become key
signifiers of broader cultural tendencies to affirm conservatism over
progress, vulnerability over resilience, and the determined self over
the free willing subject.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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