1. Foreword; 2. Part I. Addressing the complex; 3. Emotions: The simple and the complex (by Weigand, Edda); 4. Universality vs. culture-specificity of emotion (by Danes, Frantisek); 5. Emotions in language and communication (by Cmejrkova, Svetla); 6. Emotions, language, and context (by Bazzanella, Carla); 7. Body, passions and race in classical theories of language and emotion (by Joseph, John E.); 8. Part II. Communicative means for expressing emotions; 9. Interjections in a contrastive perspective (by Aijmer, Karin); 10. When did we start feeling guilty? (by Teubert, Wolfgang); 11. Joy, astonishment and fear in English, German and Russian: A corpus-based contrastive-semantic analysis (by Dem'jankov, Valerij); 12. Ambivalence as a dialogic frame of emotions in conflict (by Stamenov, Maxim I.); 13. Part III. Emotional principles in dialogue; 14. The Role of Emotions in Normative Discourse and Persuasion (by Walrod, Michael R.); 15. Anticipation of public emotions in TV debates (by Bollow, Jorn); 16. Interpreting emotions in literary dialogue (by Weizman, Elda); 17. The author-reader-text emotional bond in the literary action game (by Sovran, Tamar); 18. On the inseparability of emotion and reason in argumentation (by Plantin, Christian); 19. General index; 20. List of contributors