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Languages of Sentiment
Cultural constructions of emotional substrates
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Main description:Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language primordialism in Tamil (Harold Schiffman), the erasure of lamentation in Bangla in favor of referential language praxis (James Wilce), women's discourse in Java that creates dignity by reframing the pain of humiliation (Laine Berman), speech styles signalling intimacy and remoteness ...
Main description:
Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language primordialism in Tamil (Harold Schiffman), the erasure of lamentation in Bangla in favor of referential language praxis (James Wilce), women's discourse in Java that creates dignity by reframing the pain of humiliation (Laine Berman), speech styles signalling intimacy and remoteness in Japanese (Cynthia Dunn), divergent conceptions of love in Japanese and translated American romance novels (Janet Shibamoto-Smith), the syntax of emotion-mimetics in Japanese (Debra Occhi), the grammar of emotion-metaphors in Tagalog (Gary Palmer, Heather Bennett and Lester Stacey), and the lexical organization of emotions in the English and Spanish of second language learners (Howard Grabois). Zoltán Kövecses (with Palmer) examines the complementary relationship of social construction theory to the search for universals of emotional experience. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches
- Language, Primordialism and Sentiment
- Transforming Laments
- Dignity in Tragedy
- Public and Private Voices
- Cognitive Approaches
- From Hiren to Happî-endo
- Sounds of the Heart and Mind
- Bursting with Grief, Erupting with Shame
- The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics
- Theory
- Language And Emotion Concepts
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language primordialism in Tamil (Harold Schiffman), the erasure of lamentation in Bangla in favor of referential language praxis (James Wilce), women's discourse in Java that creates dignity by reframing the pain of humiliation (Laine Berman), speech styles signalling intimacy and remoteness in Japanese (Cynthia Dunn), divergent conceptions of love in Japanese and translated American romance novels (Janet Shibamoto-Smith), the syntax of emotion-mimetics in Japanese (Debra Occhi), the grammar of emotion-metaphors in Tagalog (Gary Palmer, Heather Bennett and Lester Stacey), and the lexical organization of emotions in the English and Spanish of second language learners (Howard Grabois). Zoltán Kövecses (with Palmer) examines the complementary relationship of social construction theory to the search for universals of emotional experience. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches
- Language, Primordialism and Sentiment
- Transforming Laments
- Dignity in Tragedy
- Public and Private Voices
- Cognitive Approaches
- From Hiren to Happî-endo
- Sounds of the Heart and Mind
- Bursting with Grief, Erupting with Shame
- The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics
- Theory
- Language And Emotion Concepts
- Name Index
- Subject Index