迈向“实践”的理论路径:理解公共舆论中的情感表达

Towards A Theoretical Path of “Practice” : Understanding The Expression of Emotion in Public Opinion

"情感转向"改变了人们对于情感的理解,受益于此,公共领域、公共舆论等领域的研究也越来越多地关注情感,但不少研究面临着"二元论"的困境,情感甚至被认为是个体的、内在的、不可分析的体验。本文聚焦于情感的表达层面,基于布尔迪厄的实践理论,提出一种研究情感表达的理论路径。情感表达依据特定的社会规则,并据此进行情感表达的管理。人们表达情感的话语也是遵从特定的社会意义脉络。情感表达也具有表演性。通过情感表演,个体不仅交流情感,还建构了某种权力关系。情感表达可以被视为布尔迪厄意义上的实践活动,它有着自己的场域、资本和惯习。这一路径能够在一定程度上超越情感研究的二元论,为我们讨论公共舆论、公共空间中的情感提供了一个可行的视角。

The "emotional turn" has changed our understanding of emotion.Benefiting from this, researches in the public sphere and public opinion have increasingly focused on the significance of emotion and conducted dialogues with the paradigm of rationalism.But many studies are facing the dilemma of "dualism", and even emotion is considered to be internal, individual and unanalyzable.This paper focuses on the expression of emotion.Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, it proposes an analytical approach to emotional expression.Emotional expression is based on specific social rules and is managed according to these rules.Emotional expression is also performative.Through emotional performance, individuals not only communicate emotions, but also construct a certain power relationship.Just like a practical activity in Bourdieu’s sense, expression of emotion has its own field, capital and habitus.This approach can transcend the dualism of emotion research to a certain extent, and provide a feasible perspective for us to discuss the emotion in public opinion and public space.