Potter2026
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| BibType | BOOK |
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| Author(s) | Jonathan Potter, Alexa Hepburn |
| Title | Emotionography: Theory, Research, and Practice |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Discursive psychology, Emotions, In press |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
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Abstract
How does emotion arise in everyday settings? How can it be studied in the real world?
In this book, Alexa Potter and Jonathan Hepburn introduce a new way of studying emotion though the fine-grained analysis of real interactions. Drawing on conversation analysis and discursive psychology, they show how laughter, crying, anger, and other emotional displays are built turn by turn, and embedded in action, and how they are consequential for subsequent social interactions.
Rather than treating emotion as a private experience communicated through words or tone, emotionography examines how emotion becomes publicly visible and socially powerful through the very fabric of talk. Using detailed case studies, transcripts, and accessible analytic guidance, Potter and Hepburn show how this approach opens new ways of understanding emotion across everyday, institutional, and clinical encounters.
Emotionography brings emotion back into social life, by revealing how our most intimate expressions are shared, structured, and interactionally achieved.
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