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Article: Repositioning emotions in composition studies
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- Composition Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Composition Studies Spring 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Emotions are essentially communicative, intercorporeal and intersubjective, constituted as physical and cultural dispositions through techniques of the body, forged within a particular social habitus.
Simon Williams
Emotion. The word conjures up diverse reactions from experts in academic fields such as composition studies. Some view emotions as separate from thinking-as unconscious reactions to external stimuli or as responses to biological processes-while others consider emotions to be biological processes that exist in the human body as part of a system of homeostasis. Still others see emotions as socially constructed, as part of a web of communication woven by interpersonal ...