Existing accounts of pride, as exemplified by cognitive appraisal studies of self-conscious emotions and naturalistic-evolutionary accounts, ignore the role of language in facilitated, constructing and regulating the occurrence of personal and collective pride. This project reinterprets contemporary research on pride within a Wittgenstein-inspired framework (e.g., development of SCEs, pride inmixed emotional experiences, national pride) and explores the details of linguistic, conversational and proto-linguistic interaction in a thoroughly social and relational model.

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Representations of mixed emotions

Research on emotion continues to be dominated by a focus on discrete emotions and particular emotional categories in such as way that the empirical discovery that mixed emotions and feelings are commonplace is described as shocking and surprising. This project includes a comprehensive review of the literature and examines representations of mixed emotions in public discourse (i.e., including recourse to metaphor and simile when existing emotion 'labels' fail to refer to a private inner 'object'). The aim is to explore the conceptual implications of these ideas and to plan for innovative multi-method empirical investigations.

Collective emotion and the World Cup

The World Cup is a mass television event that creates the type of collective passion and enthusiasm that tends to revive and reinforce the viability of nations and nation-based identities. This project builds upon research conducted during the UEFA European Championship 2008 to consider how emotion (specifically national pride) has become central to both to the bidding process for the tournament as well as the experience of the host nation. A pre-post, mixed-method, cross-national study is proposed which includes Australia, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia and South Africa will explore the impact of the WM in a range of areas of life and consider how it constitutes a form of inter-national 'natural experiment'.