What is it about?
It describes how compassion is developed. It also elucidates the appraising nature of “compassion” and discern whether compassion’s essence is rooted more in emotion or morality and valuation. It presents the process of authentication and the processes of: knowing/learning, feeling, doing and then being. These are embedded in compassion development which also involves identity alignment, positioning, and exhortation.
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Why is it important?
The first linguistic description of compassion as a social discursive process, performative identity and moral affiliation.
Perspectives
Proud to present this first linguistic description of compassion from the affiliation perspective as grounded in social semiotics/systemic functional linguistics. It promises key insights into identity fusion/alignment and authentication as a process to validate one’s compassionate identity through doing. Compassion is presented as a process of: knowing/learning, feeling, doing and then being. Language is used to forge identity alignment, positioning within shared moral orders/fields, and exhortation.
Dr Awni Etaywe
Charles Darwin University
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This page is a summary of: Compassion as appraisal, performative identity and moral affiliation, Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum, August 2024, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/langct.00066.eta.
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