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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION OF My THESIS
This study focuses on how emotion is encoded in language and the role of
emotion in negotiation. . In the present chapter I will provide a brief outline of the
structure ofthis dissertation.
In chapter 2 I give an outline of the focus of the dissertation, which is two
aspects of the relationship between emotion and language i.e. how language encodes
emotional expressions and the role that emotion plays during the negotiation process
and conflict resolution.
In chapter 3 there is a discussion of emotions and their functions and how they
are experienced as individuals' subjective feelings and manifested through external
facial and bodily reactions. There is also a discussion ofthe brain as basis for language,
perception and motor function and how it has to do with personal and social dimensions
ofreasoning. Lastly I look at the three stages of cognitive appraisal and how emotions
and hidden meaning can be identified and how empathy takes place.
In chapter 4 I base my discussion on the hypothesis that language will be
involved at all levels in the encoding of emotions. Then I look at how different
granunatical structures encode emotion and the strategies that are used in this process
and how sensual perception is used as metaphor. I also look at the three kinds of
reference and the thought processes that occur between the stimulus and the response.
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