Emotional Life, Rhetoric, and Roles
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in Journal of Narrative and Life History
- Vol. 5 (3), 213-220
- https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.5.3.03emo
Abstract
From a narrative perspective, I suggest restructuring our understanding of the phenomena of emotions by broadening the conception of emotions to emotional life. I make the claim that emotional life is storied; further, that metaphors drawn from the discipline of rhetoric are indispensable to an understanding of emotional life. I make use of the distinction between dramaturgical rhetoric and dramatistic rhetoric to identify the rhetorical acts in which the actor is the author of a concurrent script (dramaturgical) from those for which the author-ship is located in cultural narratives (dramatistic). In conceptualizing emotional life as arising from patterned efforts to resolve moral issues, I turn to role theory to fashion a construction-moral identity roles-as parallel to, but not the same as, social-identity roles. (Social Psychology)Keywords
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