Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Natalie Depraz and Agnáes Celle -- Part I. The tempor ality of surprise: A dynamic process opening up possibilities: 1. Neuro phenomenology of surprise / Michel Bitbol -- 2. Shock, twofold dynamics , cascade: Three signatures of surprise. The micro-time of the surprise d body / Natalie Depraz -- 3. The representation of surprise in English and the retroactive construction of possible paths / Graham Ranger -- Part II. Verbal interaction and action: 4. Encoding surprise in English novels: An enunciative approach / Catherine Filippi-Deswelle -- 5. How implicit is surprise? Confronting a phenomenological description with a radical pragmatist approach / Audrey Gerlain -- 6. Surprise in native , bilingual and non-native spontaneous and stimulated recall speech / P ascale Goutâeraux -- Part III. Emotional experience, expression and des cription: 7. Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English / Agnáes Ce lle, Anne Jugnet, Laure Lansari and Tyler Peterson -- 8. Looking at 'un expectedness': A corpus-based cognitive analysis of surprise & wonder / Anne Jugnet and Emilie Lhãote -- 9. Is surprise necessarily disappoint ing? / Claudia Serban -- Index.