43.1 | DOING THINGS WITH EMOTIONS

Research on language and emotion within linguistics has primarily focused on talking about emotions, that is, expressing our emotions through verbal means. However, in neighbouring disciplines such as (social) psychology and philosophy of mind, interest has also been devoted to how externalizing our emotions through nonverbal means can carry meaning in itself and function to bring about changes in the world. Taking the Theory of Affective Pragmatics (Scarantino 2017, Scarantino 2019, Scarantino et al. 2022; henceforth TAP) as a starting point, this 3-day workshop will address questions such as:

• What type of meaning is involved in emotional communication?
• Can externalizing one's emotions bring about changes in the world? What is the best way to theorise that?
• How do emotions relate to the dynamics of illocutionary and perlocutionary acts?
• How many things can we do with emotions?

Using data from a variety of languages including, but not limited to, English, Italian, German, and Japanese, we aim to contribute to ongoing debates in linguistics and the philosophy of language, also taking into account recent multimodal and experimental results. Our goal is to explore potential converging trends in our findings and so to advance further interdisicplinary collaboration on the performative potential of emotion expressions.