Consensus and Dissent
Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space
Editor
This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these discussions, led among linguists, anthropologists, and Egyptologists, and leading to a collection of essays that provide studies that transcend previously considered approaches. Its contributions are in particular interested in understanding how the attitude of the individual towards societal processes and strategies of norming is negotiated emotionally, and how individual interests and attitudes can be articulated. Discourses on public spaces are in the focus, in order to analyse those strategies that are employed to articulate dissent (for example, in the sense of face-threatening acts). This raises a number of questions on the spatial and public situatedness of emotions and language: How is the public space dealt with and reflected in language as property, heritage, and as a part of ascribed identities? Which role do emotions play in this space? How is emotion employed there as part of place making in relation to identity constructions? What is the connection between emotion, performance and emblematic spaces and places? Which opportunities of the violation of norms and transgression do such public spaces offer to actors and speakers? These questions intend to address the communicative representation of core cultural processes and concepts.
[Culture and Language Use, 19] 2017. vii, 252 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 February 2017
Published online on 23 February 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1. IntroductionAnne Storch | pp. 1–8
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Chapter 2. Towards an integrative anthropology of emotion: A case study from YogyakartaThomas Stodulka | pp. 9–34
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Chapter 3. Anger and sadness in Indonesian public emotional expression: Genre and social change in politics and religionJoel C. Kuipers | pp. 35–58
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Chapter 4. “Control your emotions! If teasing provokes you, you’ve lost your face…”: The Trobriand Islanders’ control of their public display of emotionsGunter Senft | pp. 59–80
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Chapter 5. Emotions in Jamaican: African conceptualizations, emblematicity and multimodality in discourse and public spacesAndrea Hollington | pp. 81–104
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Chapter 6. Emotion, gazes and gestures in WolofJules Jacques Coly | pp. 105–122
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Chapter 7. Programmed by culture? Why gestures became the preferred ways of expressing emotions among the HausaIzabela Will | pp. 123–140
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Chapter 8. Emotion and society: Experiences from Cherang’any (Kalenjin)Angelika Mietzner | pp. 141–164
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Chapter 9. Labeling, describing and indicating emotionsHelma Pasch | pp. 165–192
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Chapter 10. Emotional EdgelandsAnne Storch | pp. 193–212
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Chapter 11. Emotions in Goemai (Nigeria): Perspectives from a documentary corpusBirgit Hellwig | pp. 213–228
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Chapter 12. Affecting the Gods: Fear in Ancient Egyptian religious textsSven Eicke | pp. 229–246
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Author Index
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Index of subjects and languages
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Seel, Laura & Nico Nassenstein
2024. Chapter 13. “Show your feelings!”. In Anthropological Linguistics [Culture and Language Use, 23], ► pp. 331 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics