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



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Titolo: Languages of sentiment : cultural constructions of emotional substrates / / edited by Gary B. Palmer, Debra J. Occhi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44
Soggetto topico: Language and culture
Emotions
Altri autori: PalmerGary B. <1942->  
OcchiDebra J  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Languages of sentiment  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-16400-7
9786612164002
90-272-9995-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Advances in consciousness research ; ; v. 18.