Languages of Sentiment
Cultural constructions of emotional substrates
Editors
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)
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 18] 1999. vi, 272 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology and Emotional ExperienceGary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi | p. 1
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Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches
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Language, Primordialism and SentimentHarold Schiffman | p. 25
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Transforming Laments: Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic IdeologiesJames M. Wilce | p. 39
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Dignity in Tragedy: How Javanese Women Speak of EmotionLaine Berman | p. 65
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Public and Private Voices: Japanese Style Shifting and the Display of Affective IntensityCynthia D. Dunn | p. 107
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Cognitive Approaches
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From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love StoryJanet S. Shibamoto Smith | p. 131
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Sounds of the Heart and Mind: Mimetics of Emotional States in JapaneseDebra J. Occhi | p. 151
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Bursting with Grief, Erupting with Shame: A Conceptual and Grammatical Analysis of Emotion-Tropes in TagalogGary B. Palmer, Heather Bennett and Les Stacey | p. 171
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The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics: Lexical Semantics and the L2 Acquisition of Love, Fear and HappinessHoward Grabois | p. 201
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Theory
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Language And Emotion Concepts: What Experientialists and Social Constructionists Have in CommonZoltán Kövecses and Gary B. Palmer | p. 237
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Name Index | p. 263
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Subject Index | p. 265
“[...] excellent examples of how it is possible to explore the rich complexity of 'emotion' without necessarily adopting an overly reductionist or determinist account.”
C. Jason Throop, Department of Anthropology, UCLA in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 8, no. 3, 2001
“Today, we know language does not only have a heart; language creates a heart, dynamically mediating the construction of emotional meanings in our everyday life. A range of human social realms cannot exist without emotion, which is semiotically mediated trough language use. In this sense, this volume deepens our understanding of the constitutive power of emotive language.”
Keiko Matsuki, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, in Language in Society Vol 30:4 (2001)
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Subjects
Consciousness Research
Main BIC Subject
JMT: States of consciousness
Main BISAC Subject
PSY020000: PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology