Languages of sentiment : cultural constructions of emotional substrates /
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 langu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1999.
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Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 18. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Notas: | Papers presented at a conference held 1996, and sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027299956 9027299951 9781556194344 155619434X |