Emotions in Argumentative Narration

Emotions in Argumentative Narration

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This paper studies emotional inferencing triggered by emotion terms using Pragma-Dialectics and the Argumentum Model of Classics Topics.The corpus, in French, is an excerpt of a video-recorded testimony in which a middle school teacher evokes her experience of being in class the day after the Charlie Hebdo attack, thus presenting a case of argumentation in context.The analysis focuses on the argumentative structure and on the rhetorical strategies that trigger emotional inferencing.The emotional inferencing derives from a Locus of Ontological Implication, which links a situation and an emotion (and vice-versa), while the culture-bound elements tend Heat Sink to be part of the endoxon.