Pragmatics of emotions in Jordanian academic discourse: case study of comparison of Russian, Jordanian and American discourses

Alhaded HashemHaniShehadeh

Jordanian academic discourse as a part of the Arab culture of the Middle East is distinguished by a set of certain ethnocultural features of emotional communication, the incorrect interpretation of which by foreign cultural participants in communication entails failures in intercultural interaction. The purpose of this article is to consider the main points and patterns of emotional communication of Jordanian academic discourse in higher educational universities of Amman, to characterize emotional restraint and openness in the Jordanian dialect of the Arabic language, and also to study the pragmatics of non-verbal emotional acts of Jordanian academic discourse. As illustrations, the article provides a comparison of the Russian-speaking, Anglo-Saxon and Arab cultures, but the main emphasis is placed on the Jordanian linguistic culture. In the article, we admitted a high degree of generalization, since our analysis is based on the ethnocultural level of communication. The material of the research was the data of empirical research obtained by the method of questioning and direct observation, theoretical sources. The results of the study showed that the pragmatics of emotions in the Jordanian academic discourse has its own ethnocultural specificity, which is characterized by certain functional and pragmatic features of emotional communication between student and teacher.

Keywords:Jordanian academic discourse, emotional communication, pragmatics of emotions