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

Palmer, Gary B.,i1942- ; Occhi, Debra J.

Amsterdam [u.a.] : J. Benjamins, 1999

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 pages) : Illustrations

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 18

Papers presented at a conference held 1996, and sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

978-90-272-9995-6 ; 90-272-9995-1 ; 978-1-55619-434-4 ; 1-55619-434-X

CP 1000 ER 940 ER 955

 

Gefühlsausdruck  Expressivität, Linguistik 

 

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.