Conversation analytical studies on emotion show how expression of is part the intersubjective experience. Emotions, however, are as much physiological experiential events. Physiological processes pertaining to involve changes in cardiovascular activity, activation sweat glands, and muscular activity. The dyadic systems theory by Beebe Lachmann (2002) suggests that actions regulate social intera...

Psychoanalytic theories of mind consist of comprehensive explanations of human behavior and motivation. Such theories seek to account for normal and abnormal development at both the population and individual levels, but these abstract and global ideas can seem distant from our personal, moment-by-moment, lived experience. Intersubjectivity theory has reformulated psychological concepts of why p...

K E Y W O R D S : agency, emergence, identity, ideology, indexicality, interaction, intersubjectivity, positioning, sociocultural linguistics, stance, style