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The language of emotions : the case of Dalabon (Australia) /
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and anal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Language of Emotions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of tables ; List of figures; Abbreviations and conventions; Recordings; Orthographic conventions; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Defining emotions; 1.1 Universalists and relativists; 1.2 Working definition; 1.2.1 Emotions are private states; 1.2.2 Other criteria and properties; 1.2.3 Summary; 1.3 The concept of emotion in Dalabon; 2. Linguistic approaches to emotions; 2.1 Expression vs description; 2.2 Focus on meaning vs focus on metaphor.
- 2.2.1 Describing meanings in Dalabon2.2.2 Reflecting on tropes; 3. Structure of the work; Chapter 2. Ethnographic context; 1. Who are the Dalabon?; 2. Pre-colonial life style, environment and connection to the land; 2.1 Social organization; 2.1.1 Kinship; 2.1.2 Marriages; 2.1.3 Subsections; 2.2 Cosmogonies; 2.3 Secrecy and gender division; 3. Colonization and recent history; 3.1 Dalabon life style; 3.2 The Dalabon and their historical background; 4. Emotions in the Dalabon context; 4.1 The status of emotions; 4.2 Managing painful emotions; Chapter 3. Linguistic context; 1. Linguistic context.
- 1.1 The local language ecology1.1.1 Dalabon; 1.1.2 Kriol; 1.2 Gathering data on emotions in Dalabon; 1.2.1 Vantage point; 1.2.2 Caveats and methodological solutions; 1.2.3 Limitations of the data; 1.2.4 Corpora and their indexation; 1.2.5 Glosses; 2. The Dalabon language; 2.1 Profile and previous works; 2.2 The verb template; 2.3 Noun incorporation; 2.3.1 Syntactic noun incorporation and lexicalized compounds; 2.3.2 Lexicalization and metaphors; 2.4 Body-part nouns and nominal subclasses; 2.4.1 The animate-part nominal subclass; 2.4.2 Morphosyntactic behavior of animate-part nouns.
- Chapter 4. Expressive features1. Methodology; 1.1 Data; 1.2 Categories; 1.3 Comparison with Kriol; 2. Other emotional devices; 2.1 Apprehensive mood; 2.2 Reported speech; 2.3 Demonstratives; 3. Diminutives; 3.1 -Wurd with nouns referring to animates; 3.1.1 Categories not defined by age; 3.1.2 Categories defined by age; 3.1.3 Distribution; 3.1.4 Other animates; 3.2 -Wurd on nouns referring to inanimates; 3.2.1 Emotional connotations; 3.2.2 Softening pragmatic functions; 3.3 Verbs; 3.3.1 Scalar senses; 3.3.2 Emotional senses; 3.3.3 Softening functions; 3.4 -Wurd on other word classes; 3.5 Yaw-
- 3.6 Conclusions4. Emotive interjections; 4.1 Definitions; 4.2 Emotive interjections in Dalabon; 4.3 Core emotive interjections; 4.3.1 Weh-no; 4.3.2 Bordo(h); 4.3.3 Woywoy; 4.3.4 Comparison; 4.3.5 Note on bobala; 4.3.6 Conclusions; 5. Emotional prosodic features; 5.1 Variations in pitch; 5.1.1 Emotional prosodic contour; 5.1.2 Contexts; 5.1.3 High pitch; 5.1.4 Other contours; 5.2 Phonation and intensity; 5.2.1 Creakiness; 5.2.2 Whispering; 5.2.3 Lower intensity; 5.3 The 'sad register'; 5.4 Conclusions; 6. Expressives: Final remarks; Chapter 5. The lexicon: Structure.