Emotions in legal fiction : conceptual metaphors and cross-domain mapping with ATLAS.ti Alena Soloshenko To cite this version: Alena Soloshenko. Emotions in legal fiction : conceptual metaphors and cross-domain mapping with ATLAS.ti. Linguistics. Université de Strasbourg, 2016. English. NNT : 2016STRAC022. tel- 01529768 HAL Id: tel-01529768 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01529768 Submitted on 31 May 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG ÉCOLE DOCTORALE 520 « Humanités » UR 1339 LiLPa (Linguistique, Langues, Parole) THÈSE présentée par : Alena SOLOSHENKO soutenue le : 23 septembre 2016 pour obtenir le grade de : Docteur de l’université de Strasbourg Discipline/ Spécialité : Sciences du Langage (Linguistique anglaise) Emotions in Legal Fiction: Conceptual Metaphors and Cross-Domain Mapping with ATLAS.ti La conceptualisation des émotions dans la fiction juridique : Métaphores conceptuelles et mises en correspondance croisée avec l’outil ATLAS.ti THÈSE dirigée par : Madame BOISSEAU Maryvonne Professeur, Université de Strasbourg RAPPORTEURS : Madame DEIGNAN Alice Professeur, Université de Leeds Monsieur GLYNN Dylan Professeur, Université de Paris 8 AUTRES MEMBRES DU JURY : Madame RICHARD Isabelle Professeur, Université de Nantes Monsieur HAMM Albert Professeur, Université de Strasbourg ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank a number of people for helping me throughout my doctoral studies at Strasbourg University. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my research supervisor, Professor Maryvonne Boisseau, for her continuous support and advice through these years, as well as her excellent guidance that helped me to complete this thesis. She has been an excellent mentor. I am grateful for our stimulating discussions over the years. She taught me how to think like a researcher, develop writing abilities, and improve my research techniques. I am grateful to her for proofreading my thesis in English, as it is not my native language, and for helping me with the French summary of my thesis. I would like to thank her for always making time for me and making me feel welcome. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Alice Deignan and Professor Dylan Glynn for agreeing to assess my work and to be the reporters of my thesis. I thank Professor Isabelle Richard and Professor Albert Hamm for examining my thesis and for being part of the thesis examination committee. I am grateful to Dr Stéphane Kostantzer, who helped me a great deal with the French version of my thesis summary. I appreciate his advice and meticulous proofreading of my thesis summary. I thank Alexis Hugelmann, who also helped me with the French summary and Professor Stephen G. Bown for his help with English at the beginning of my doctoral studies. Special thanks go to my dear friend, André Fargette, who helped me with French and English over the years. I would like to thank all the members of UR 1339 LiLPa for being a talented, creative, and collaborative group of wonderful people. I have appreciated our enjoyable discussions whenever I stayed in Strasbourg. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Rudolph Sock, who has always warmly welcomed me and encouraged me. I would like to thank ‘l’École Doctorale des Humanités’ and ‘Département Formation Doctorale.’ I am grateful to Mme Ramirez and Mme Lapierre for being welcoming to me, for their prompt replies to my questions and emails. Last but not least, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my parents, Vera and Vladimir Soloshenko, to whom I dedicate this thesis. I could not have done it without their continuous support, love, and encouragement. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................... 5 LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND PICTURES ............................................... 11 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 13 CHAPTER I: EMOTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION ..................... 23 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 23 1. MULTI-COMPLEX APPROACHES TO EMOTIONS ...................................... 25 1.1 Emotion in language science ................................................................... 25 1.1.1 Culture and emotion ................................................................. 27 1.1.2 Expression and emotion ........................................................... 30 1.1.3 Experience and emotion ............................................................ 32 1.2 Research dynamic between language and emotion ................................. 37 1.3 Language, cognition and emotion ........................................................... 39 2. COGNITIVE APPROACH TO EMOTIONS ...................................................... 42 2.1 Conceptual metaphor, language and cognition ....................................... 42 2.2 Embodied cognition and schematic system of knowledge ..................... 45 2.3 Cognitive linguistics: Criticism and recent developments ...................... 48 2.3.1 Shortcomings in cognitive linguistics and responses ............... 48 2.4 Empirically driven metaphor research: Qualitative metaphor analysis ... 52 3. THEORIES OF EMOTION .................................................................................. 61 3.1 Physiological and cognitive theories of emotion .................................... 61 3.2 The survival-driven theories of emotion ................................................. 62 3.3 Cognitive theories of emotion ................................................................. 66 3.3.1 Cognitive appraisal process in emotion ................................... 66 3.3.2 Lazarus’ approach to appraisals ............................................... 68 3.3.3 Schachter and Singer’s approach to appraisals ........................ 70 Summary .................................................................................................................... 73 CHAPTER II: EMOTION AND THE LAW IN A LEGAL CONTEXT ........... 75 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 75 1. OPTIONS FOR THE EXPRESSION OF EMOTION ......................................... 76 1.1 Toward a definition of emotion .............................................................. 76 1.2 Definition and specifications: Emotion and feeling ................................. 78 1.3 Definition and specifications: Emotion and affect ................................... 81 5 1.4 Definition and specifications: Emotion and mood ................................... 84 1.5 The classification of Emotion .................................................................. 87 1.6 Defining “emotion” in view of a cognitive linguistics study ................... 95 2. EMOTION AND LITERATURE ......................................................................... 97 2.1 Law and literature .................................................................................... 98 2.1.1 The notion of worldview ........................................................ 100 2.2 Literary text processing: affective aspect ............................................... 102 2.2.1 Emotional attention in narratives ........................................... 106 2.2.2 Types of readers ..................................................................... 108 2.3 Text comprehension: Narratives via image-schematic logic ................ 111 3. EMOTION IN LEGAL DISCOURSE ............................................................... 117 3.1 The law, legal discourse and emotion ................................................... 118 3.2 Legal discourse and cognitive linguistics ............................................. 120 3.3 Reassessment of emotions and the law ................................................. 123 Summary .................................................................................................................. 129 CHAPTER III: QUALITATIVE METAPHOR ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGY AND PROCESSING ............................................................ 131 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 131 1. SOURCE DATA SPECIFICS ............................................................................. 132 1.1 Source data for the analysis: Legal fiction ............................................. 132 1.1.1 Legal documentation as the source data for the analysis ........ 134 1.1.2 Time-frame 1: Victorian literature .......................................... 135 1.1.3 Time-frame 2: The Golden Age of detective fiction ............... 136 1.1.4 Time-frame 3: Modern legal thriller ...................................... 138 1.2 Extraction of emotion keywords from the corpus ................................