Emotional Specifics of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior When Discussing Body Positivity (based on interviews with informants from Russia)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2023-2-24-39Keywords:
emotions; emotivity; evaluativity; verbal markers; nonverbal markers; oral discourse; body positivity.Abstract
The article focuses on the problem of describing the specifics of verbal and nonverbal behavior of Russian-speaking respondents in oral discourse on body positivity as a topical social issue. The relevance of the problem is determined by: 1) the growing interest of scientists in the study of emotional processes in language and speech; 2) the lack of scientific papers describing the national and cultural specifics of the emotional behavior of Russophones; 3) its interdisciplinarity. The aim is to describe the emotional specifics of verbal and nonverbal behavior of Russian-speaking informants in the discourse about body positivity and, by identifying emotional markers, to describe the attitude of Russophones to the movement of radical body positivity. The leading research method is multimodal analysis implemented using ELAN software. During the experiment, it was found that, on the one hand, through language cliches, phraseological units, obscene vocabulary and borrowings from the English language, the proposition ‘you need to accept yourself as you are’ is verbalized; on the other hand, there is an ironic attitude toward the supporters of body positivity, embodied in the genre of parody. To comply with generally accepted norms of acceptability, respondents resort to self-correction, verbalized by tolerance markers. The gender aspect of body positivity is manifested in the actualization of the propositions ‘body positivity is about the female body’ and ‘the male is the earner’. References to pop culture are used for emotional reinforcement, which is also realized through nonverbal manifestations of emotions, including nonverbal markers of bewilderment, embarrassment, doubt, approval (a smirk, frown, facial expressions, laughter, smile, squinting). In addition, there are limiter gestures used to indicate a conditional separation of two objects, to visualize a ‘shield’ or show a frame, as well as a gesture visualizing quotation marks to normalize what has been said and emphasize disagreement.References
Арутюнова Н. Д. Типы языковых значений. Оценка. Событие. Факт. М.: Наука, 1988. 336 с.
Арутюнова Н. Д. Оценка в механизмах жизни и языка // Язык и мир человека. М.: Языки русской культуры, 1999. С. 130−272.
Бабенко Л. Г. Лексические средства обозначения эмоций в русском языке. Свердловск: Урал. гос. ун-т, 1989. 184 с.
Вольф Е. М. Функциональная семантика оценки. Лингвистическое наследие ХХ века. М.: URSS, 2002. 228 с.
Грайс Г. П. Логика и речевое общение // Новое в зарубежной лингвистике. М., 1985. Вып. XVI. С. 217−237.
Колмогорова А. В., Горностаева Ю. А. Дискурсивная специфика эмоциональной легитимации монархии в испанских СМИ // Вестник МГПУ. Серия «Филология. Теория языка. Языковое образование». 2021. № 3. С. 79–94. doi 10.25688/2076-913X.2021.43.3.08
Маликова А. В. Невербальные маркеры эмоций для сентимент-анализа русскоязычных интернет-текстов // Вестник Северного (Арктического) федерального университета. Серия: Гуманитарные и социальные науки. 2020. № 4. С. 97–107. doi 10.37482/2227-6564-V038
Стаценко А. С. Эмоционально-оценочная лексика как средство реализации речевой интенции: монография. М.: МПГУ, 2011. 118 с.
Цесарская А. Е. Лексическая автокоррекция в речевом поведении говорящего // Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2: Языкознание. 2016. Т. 15, № 4. С. 53–62.
Шаховский В. И. Эмоции как объект исследования в лингвистике // Вопросы психолингвистики. 2009. № 9. С. 29–42.
Шаховский В. И. Лингвистическая теория эмоций. М.: Гнозис, 2008. 416 с.
Шиллер А. В. Роль теорий воплощенного познания в исследованиях и моделировании эмоций // Философские науки. 2019. № 62(5). С. 124–138.
Argaman O. Linguistic Markers and Emotional Intensity // Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 2010. No. 39. P. 89–99.
Billie. Red, White, and You Do You. URL: https://youtu.be/XYsacX9LwSw (дата обращения: 25.08.2022).
Jackson J. C. et al. Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure // Science. 2019. Issue 366(6472). P. 1517–1522.
Jackson J. C., Watts J., List J.-M., Puryear C., Drabble R., Lindquist K. A. From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science // Perspectives of Psychological Science. 2022. Issue 17(3). P. 805–826.
Lindquist K. A. Language and Emotion: Introduction to the Special Issue // Affective Science. 2021. Issue 2. P. 91–98.
Maia A., Santos D. Language, emotion, and the emotions: The multidisciplinary and linguistic background // Language and Linguistic Compass. 2018. Vol. 12. Issue 3. P. e12280.
Majid A. Current emotion research in the language sciences // Emotion Review. 2012. Issue 4(4). P. 432–443.
Mesquita B., Boiger M. Emotions in context: A sociodynamic model of emotions // Emotion Review. 2014. Issue 6(4). P. 298–302.
Negri A., Andreoli G., Barazzetti A., Zamin C., Christian C. Linguistic Markers of the Emotion Elaboration Surrounding the Confinement Period in the Italian Epicenter of COVID-19 Outbreak // Frontiers in Psychology. 2020. Issue 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568281
Patel S., Scherer K., Sundberg J., Björkner E. Acoustic Markers of Emotions Based on Voice Physiology // Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, International Speech Communications Association. 2010. Vol. 100865. P. 1–4.
References
Arutyunova N. D. Tipy yazykovykh znacheniy. Otsenka. Sobytie. Fakt [Types of Linguistic Meanings. Evaluation. Event. Fact]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1988. 336 p. (In Russ.).
Arutyunova N. D. Otsenka v mekhanizmakh zhizni i yazyka [Evaluation in the mechanisms of life and language]. Yazyk i mir cheloveka [Language and the Human World]. Moscow, Languages of the Russian Culture Publ., 1999, pp. 130–272. (In Russ.).
Babenko L. G. Leksicheskie sredstva oboznacheniya emotsiy v russkom yazyke [Lexical Means of Designating Emotions in the Russian Language]. Sverdlovsk, Ural State University Press, 1989. 184 p. (In Russ.).
Vol’f E. M. Funktsional’naya semantika otsenki. Lingvisticheskoe nasledie XX veka [Functional Semantics of Evaluation. Linguistic Legacy of the 20th Century]. Moscow, Editorial URSS Publ., 2002. 228 p. (In Russ.).
Grice H. P. Logika i rechevoe obshchenie [Logic and Conversation]. Novoe v zarubezhnoy lingvistike [The New in Foreign Linguistics], 1985, issue 16, pp. 217–237. (In Russ.).
Kolmogorova A. V., Gornostaeva Yu. A. Diskursivnaya spetsifika emotsional’noy legitimatsii monarkhii v ispanskikh SMI [The discursive specificity of the emotional legitimation of the monarchy in the Spanish media]. Vestnik MGPU. Seriya ‘Filologiya. Teoriya yazyka. Yazykovoe obrazovanie’ [MCU Journal of Philology, Theory of Linguistics. Linguistic Education], 2021, issue 3, pp. 79–94. doi: 10.25688/2076-913X.2021.43.3.08. (In Russ.).
Malikova A. V. Neverbal’nye markery emotsiy dlya sentiment-analiza russkoyazychnykh internet-tekstov [Non-verbal emotion markers in the sentiment analysis of Russian-language Internet texts]. Vestnik Severnogo (Arkticheskogo) federal’nogo universiteta. Seriya: Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki [Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University], 2020, issue 4, pp. 97–107. doi: 10.37482/2227-6564-V038. (In Russ.).
Statsenko A. S. Emotsional’no-otsenochnaya leksika kak sredstvo realizatsii rechevoy intentsii [Emotional-Evaluative Vocabulary as a Means of Implementing Speech Intention: a monograph]. Moscow, Moscow Pedagogical State University Press, 2011. 118 p. (In Russ.).
Tsesarskaya A. E. Leksicheskaya avtokorrektsiya v rechevom povedenii govoryashchego [Lexical self-correction in speech behaviour]. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2: Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2016, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 53–62. (In Russ.).
Shakhovskiy V. I. Emotsii kak ob”ekt issledovaniya v lingvistike [Human emotions as an object of the study in linguistics]. Voprosy psikholingvistiki [Journal of Psycholinguistics], 2009, issue 9, pp. 29–42. (In Russ.).
Shakhovskiy V. I. Lingvisticheskaya teoriya emotsiy [Linguistic Theory of Emotions]. Moscow, Gnozis Publ., 2008. 416 p. (In Russ.).
Shiller A. V. Rol’ teoriy voploshchennogo poznaniya v issledovaniyakh i modelirovanii emotsiy [The role of theories of embodied cognition in research and modeling of emotions]. Filosofskie nauki [Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences], 2019, issue 62 (5), pp. 124–138. (In Russ.).
Argaman O. Linguistic markers and emotional intensity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010, issue 39, pp. 89–99. (In Eng.).
Billie. Red, White, and You Do You. Available at: https://youtu.be/XYsacX9LwSw (accessed 25 Aug 2022).
Jackson J. C. et al. Emotion emantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science, 2019, issue 366 (6472), pp. 1517–1522. (In Eng).
Jackson J. C., Watts J., List J.-M., Puryear C., Drabble R., Lindquist K. A. From text to thought: How analyzing language can advance psychological science. Perspectives of Psychological Science, 2022, issue 17 (3), pp. 805–826. (In Eng.).
Lindquist K. A. Language and emotion: Introduction to the special issue. Affective Science, 2021, issue 2, pp. 91–98. (In Eng.).
Maia A., Santos D. Language, emotion, and the emotions: The multidisciplinary and linguistic background. Language and Linguistic Compass, 2018, vol. 12, issue 3, e12280. (In Eng.).
Majid A. Current emotion research in the language sciences. Emotion Review, 2012, issue 4(4), pp. 432–443. (In Eng.).
Mesquita B., Boiger M. Emotions in context: A sociodynamic model of emotions. Emotion Review, 2014, issue 6 (4), pp. 298–302. (In Eng.).
Negri A., Andreoli G., Barazzetti A., Zamin C., Christian C. Linguistic markers of the emotion elaboration surrounding the confinement period in the Italian epicenter of COVID-19 outbreak. Frontiers in Psychology, 2020, issue 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568281. (In Eng.).
Patel S., Scherer K., Sundberg J., Björkner E. Acoustic Markers of Emotions Based on Voice Physiology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, International Speech Communications Association, 2010, vol. 100865, pp. 1–4. (In Eng.).
