Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction:
1.1 Prolegomena
1.2 Clocks and clouds
1.3 Overview
1.3.1 Chapter two
1.3.2 Chapter three
1.3.3 Chapter four
1.3.4 Chapter five
1.3.5 Chapter six
1.3.6 Chapter seven
1.3.7 Chapter eight. 2. Pragmatics and emotion – the challenges:
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Two challenges
2.2.1 Description versus expression
2.2.2 Propositions and ineffability
2.3 Pragmatics. 3. What is emotion?:
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The early history of emotion studies
3.2.1 Aristotle to Hume
3.2.2 Charles Darwin and William James
3.3 Affective science
3.3.1 Three views
3.3.2 Basic emotion
3.3.3 Constructed emotion
3.3.4 The view from appraisal theory. 4. From proto-pragmatics to pragmatics:
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Towards expressive meaning
4.3 Bally's parole
4.4 Speech acts: how to do things with words (and emotional expressions)
4.5 Alternatives. 5. Relevance theory, non–propositional content and ineffability:
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Relevance
5.2.1 Theory
5.2.2 Applications, concepts, procedures
5.2.3 Ineffability
5.3 Two notions of relevance? 6. Beyond propositions:
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Affective effects
6.2.1 Primary affective effects
6.2.2 Secondary affective effects: emotion and poetry
6.2.3 Affective effects and persuasion. 7. Emotion and evolution:
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Creature construction
7.2.1 Pirot #1: the sea-sponge
7.2.1 Towards a sensorium: the direct route
7.2.3 Pirot #2: the lizard and emotion
7.2.4 Humean projection: the indirect route. 8. Pragmatics and emotion – the challenges revisited:
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Two challenges
8.2.1 Expressing and describing
8.2.2 Propositions and ineffability
8.3 Pragmatics and emotion – closing remarks.

"Most books on linguistic pragmatics overlook the role of emotion in communication. This book faces the challenges head-on by providing an original study of how we communicate our emotions through language, integrating affect in pragmatic theory. Innovative yet accessible, it is essential reading for anyone interested in communication and emotion"-- Provided by publisher.