1. Why does emotion matter in linguistics ?

2. How does emotion affect language and at the same time is affected by language?
3. What does the emotional turn in linguistics mean?
4. What is emotion and why is it difficult to define the concept of
emotion?
5. What is the interdisciplinary nature of emotion linguistics?
6. How does the verbalisation and manifestation of emotions differ
across languages and cultures?
7. How do emotional communication and emotive communication
differ?
8. Explain with examples the cultural feature of emotions. Give an example from your culture?
9. Why is emotion a worth studying topic in linguistics and in particular
within the subfields of discourse analysis and pragmatics
10. What aspects of the study of emotion are the focus of discourse-
pragmatic approach?