Language and emotion
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Language and emotion
(Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 25)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-222) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Theory: 1. Defining the domain
- 2. The relationship of language and emotion
- 3. Approaches to language and emotion
- 4. The panhuman and the particular
- Part II. Language, Power, and Honor: 5. Language, emotion, power, and politics
- 6. Status, honorification, and emotion for hire
- Part III. Identification and Identity: 7. Language as emotional object
- 8. Language, affect, gender, and sexuality
- Part IV. Histories of Language and Emotion: 9. A history of theories
- 10. Shifting forms of language and emotion
- 11. Language and the medicalization of emotion
- Conclusion.
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