Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Emotion Research - General Aspects -- 1 A survey of emotion theories and their relevance to language research -- I Affective sciences: Theories of emotion and their linguistic relevance -- 2 Language and emotion in the history of linguistics -- 3 Emotion and language in philosophy -- 4 Anthropological theories of emotion -- 5 Linguistic theories of emotion -- 6 Psychological theories of emotion and their relationship with language -- 7 Cognitive approaches to emotion and semantics -- II Methods of emotion research and their linguistic relevance -- 8 Qualitative methods -- 9 Quantitative and behavioral studies -- 10 Quantitative and physiological measures -- 11 Linguistic data resources for computational emotion sensing and modeling -- B Perspectives in Semiotics, Linguistics, and Communication Theory -- 12 A survey of language-based approaches and their relation to emotions -- III Language history and language change -- 13 Historical aspects of linguistic and emotional changes -- 14 Expressions of emotion and linguistic change -- 15 Historical semantic and linguistic history of thinking -- IV Semiotics of emotion -- 16 Semiotic conceptions of emotion -- 17 Multimodality, facial expression, and emotional language -- 18 Emotion and communication design -- 19 Emotion, colour, and language -- V Grammatical dimensions of emotion research -- 20 Morphology and emotion -- 21 Interjections and other emotional communicative acts -- 22 Morphosyntactic structure and emotion -- VI Semantics and the expression of emotion -- 23 Affective meaning in language -- 24 Vocabulary of emotions and its development in English, German and other languages -- 25 The use of emotion lexicon in emotion research -- 26 Emotions and figurative language -- 27 Studying emotion effects in language -- VII Language action and the processing of emotion -- 28 Pragmatics and emotions in social contexts -- 29 Rhetoric, stylistics, and emotion -- 30 Deception and emotion -- 31 Apologies, forgiveness and the social perception of emotions -- 32 The pragmatics of emotion, argument and conflict