Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of RicA ur and Maldiney; it is reduced to a break in cognition by cognitivists (Dennett). Only recently was it broached in li...