Many of the chapters in this book present research carried out within the EMO- FUNDETT Excellence Project (EMOtion and language ‘at work’: The discursive emotive/ evaluative FUNction in DiffErent Texts and work conTexts – FFI2013– 47792–C2–1-P, PI Laura Alba-Juez, http://emofundett.weebly.com), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). Some of the authors in the volume are not members of the project, but their work was selected from the numerous talks given at the International Conference on Language and Emotion, held at the UNED in Madrid in November 2016 and organized by the EMO-FUNDETT research group.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Anita Fetzer, editor of the Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, as well as to the anonymous reviewers of the whole volume, for their thorough revision and invaluable comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. We also want to thank Isja Conen and Patricia Leplae, of John Benjamins, for their constant guidance and kindness throughout the process of editing the volume.