The role of linguistic studies in psychosocial research: the case of passions and feelings

Abstract

Assuming conversation as the principal model for understanding social episodes, this work aims at presenting a new paradigm in social psychology, exploring its contributions to psychosocial research. Linguistic skills are presented as the way through which social episodes are constructed, and notions as action, act and position are plotted as useful notions for the understanding of daily life. Then, the application of these notions takes place through examples of emotions, passions and feelings. The conclusion is that this new paradigm in social psychology offers the opportunity to overcome problems from the psychology of a different culture or psychopathology.