Cultural Studies On Emotions And Communication Skills In English

Abstract

The above title of the research paper, I wish to  present as a theoretical paper. The research paper will outline and discuss a method of emotions and communication that mingled with cultural perception.  The aim of this method is to integrate recent developments  in emotions research into a  communication-theoretical framework in  the study.

Cultural studies of emotions originated from anthropology, sociology and psychology. The first accounts of emotion from a cultural perspective were ethnographic, and described emotions as idiosyncratic. Researchers such as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and Jean Briggs described unique emotional phenomena and stressed emotions as culturally determined. For example, Briggs lived among the Utku Inuit and described a society where anger and aggression almost never occur, despite the common western notion that anger is a primitive universal emotion. Although these ethnographic studies point to considerable cultural differences, no general conclusions can be drawn from them regarding what cultural aspects affect emotions, or what level the culture influence. For example, it might be that the same emotions are experienced by all human beings; however the events that evoke them or the reactions they cause differ across cultures.