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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454155803321

Autore

Palmer Gary B. <1942->

Titolo

Languages of Sentiment [[electronic resource] ] : Cultural constructions of emotional substrates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999

ISBN

1-282-16400-7

9786612164002

90-272-9995-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Advances in Consciousness Research

Altri autori (Persone)

OcchiDebra J

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Emotions -- Congresses

Language and culture -- Congresses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

LANGUAGES OF SENTIMENT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology and Emotional Experience; Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches; Cognitive Approaches; Theory; Name Index; Subject Index; the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH

Sommario/riassunto

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 (Cynt