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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972264103321

Titolo

Languages of sentiment : cultural constructions of emotional substrates / / edited by Gary B. Palmer, Debra J. Occhi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1999

ISBN

1-282-16400-7

9786612164002

90-272-9995-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Advances in consciousness research ; ; v. 18

Altri autori (Persone)

PalmerGary B. <1942->

OcchiDebra J

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Language and culture

Emotions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held 1996, and sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Linguistic anthropology and emotional experience/ Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi-- Language, primordialism, and sentiment/ Harold Schiffman-- Transforming laments/ James M. Wilce Jr.-- Dignity in tragedy/ Laine Berman-- Public and private voices/ Cynthia Dickel Dunn-- From hiren to happi-endo/ Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith-- Sounds of the heart and mind/ Debra J. Occhi-- Bursting with grief, erupting with shame/ Gary B. Palmer, Heather Bennett, and Les Stacey-- The convergence of sociocultural theory and cognitive linguistics/ Howard Grabois-- Language and emotion concepts/ Zoltan Kovecses and Gary B. Palmer.

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