Increasingly, bodies and emotions have become a topic of systematic engagement in a number of academic disciplines. Starting from psychology and neuroscience, this interest – sometimes framed in terms of “affective turn” or “body turn” – has made its way into social and cultural studies and, to some extent, into applied linguistics. The recent “rediscovery” of bodies and emotions can, however, draw on earlier conceptions linking body, emotion and language such as the emotive function of language, the interactional enactment of bodies and affects, the notions of hexis and habitus, the discursive production of bodies and of emotions, the bodily rootedness of metaphors or the distinction between (perceived) body-object and (perceiving) body-subject. The interest of applied linguistics in emotions and embodiment can be seen as clustered around three basic questions: (1) How are bodies and emotions performed in verbal interactions? (2) How are they formed or constructed in social practices and discourses? (3) How are they involved in processes of experiencing and enregistering communicative events? As I argue, these three aspects cannot be dealt with separately as, in all of them, power relations and language ideological processes of positioning oneself and being positioned by others are at stake. The interrelations between discourse, emotions and embodiment will be approached from different epistemological angles: interactional approaches focusing on the observation of situated communicative events on a micro level; discourse theory approaches investigating the discursive objectification of subjects and subjectivities in a historical perspective; phenomenological approaches taking the idea of the acting and experiencing body-subject as starting point. Special attention is given to issues currently debated such as the production of racialized, gendered or disabled bodies as well as to concepts such as emotion in positioning or in stancetaking, embodied sociolinguistics or the lived experience of language.