Language and emotion /

Analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 25.
Subjects:
Language and emotions.
Laments.
Anthropological linguistics.
Langage et émotions.
Lamentations.
Ethnolinguistique.
anthropological linguistics.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Anthropological linguistics
Laments
Language and emotions
Sprache
Gefühl
Expressivität > Linguistik
Kultur
Emoties.
Taalgebruik.
Sociolinguïstiek.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Transcripts; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Feelingful language; Why this book Why now; Writing about emotion who does it and how; Overview of the argument and chapters; Part I Theory; Part II Language power and honor; Part III Identification and identity; Part IV Histories of language and emotion; Part I Theory; 1 Defining the domain; What is language?; Anthropological lenses on emotion; What is emotion? How is it related to affect?; Emotion, affect, social life; Ghosts of Descartes; Emotion: a single, coherent domain?

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