Exploring the Translatability of Emotions

Susan Petrilli  is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Meng Ji is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Introduction, Susan Petrilli.- Part I: On the Transaltability of Emotions.- Alterity and the Translatability of Emotions as the Foundation of Self, Language and Living Together; Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio.- Why Emotions Translate, but Feelings Do Not: Insights from Peirce; Winfried Nöth.- Feeling and Its Unfolding; Lucia Santaella.- Body, Emotion and Semiosis: Translating Emotion into Action; Jacques Fontanille.- Part II: Speaking Emotions Listening to the Body and to Others.- Emotions as Discourse; Alphonso Lingis.- On a Biology of Emotions and Its role in Cultural Evolution; Elize Bisanz.- Emotion, Culture, and the Nature of Truth: For a Dialogical Philosophy; Wayne Cristaudo.- Part III: Becoming Conscious of Emotions and Social Conditioning.- Self-Regard and Disregarded Selves: A Peircean Approach to Several Social Emotions; Vincent Colapietro.- Language, Pragmatics, and Emotions: The Case of Impoliteness; Frank Nuessel.- Saving-Face: The Nonverbal Communicology of BasicEmotions; Richard Lanigan.- Part IV: Expressing Emotions between Mass-medial and Rhetorical Figures.- Emotional Wellbeing and the Semiotic Translation of Emojis; Marcel Danesi.- Transmediality and Translation of Emotions; Peeter Torop.- The Translator’s Mobilization of Social Emotions: A Behavioral-Economic Approach to the Rhetoric of Translation; Douglas Robinson.

“This informative and up-to-date volume is an essential read for those interested in the interaction of emotion with language, meaning, consciousness, social practices and translation, particularly from a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. It provides valuable insights into the translatability of human emotions and serves as a foundation for further research and advancement in this emerging field.” (Yanjin Liu, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 7 (1), 2023)“This volume’s strengths are, first and foremost, the fascinating nature of the topics. For those of us who are not widely read in the semiotics of emotions, we can delve into just about any chapter … . Another strength is the breadth and depth ofthe authors’ and editors’ knowledge. … it’s easy to see how this collection of essays would provide stimulating reading for graduate students and researchers in translation studies … .” (Derrin Pinto, Hispania, Vol. 106 (2), June, 2023)