A panorama about the study of the emotions: convergencies and specificities among Discourse Analysis and another knowledge fields

Abstract

The study of the emotions has become an object of recent and enticing research in Discourse Analysis (DA). In this research, we aim to present/show a theoretical panorama of emotions, trying to articulate among DA and another knowledge fields that have clearly influenced its theoretical formulation about the emotions, such as: Rhetoric, Phenomenology and Utterance Theory. We will show the regularities among these four knowledge fields thorough the analysis of a representative work of each one. Then, we will verify the influence and confluence of other knowledge fields in the DA theoretical formulations about the emotions, trying to observe how the DA researchers use theories that belong to the linguistic field, as well as the philosophical field, in order to create a discursive theory that takes into account the analysis of the emotions.