Languages of Sentiment

Cultural constructions of emotional substrates

Editors

Gary B. Palmer

| University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Debra J. Occhi

| University of California at Davis

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Working from Radcliffe-Browns 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 (Cynthia Dunn), divergent conceptions of love in Japanese and translated American romance novels (Janet Shibamoto-Smith), the syntax of emotion-mimetics in Japanese (Debra Occhi), the grammar of emotion-metaphors in Tagalog (Gary Palmer, Heather Bennett and Lester Stacey), and the lexical organization of emotions in the English and Spanish of second language learners (Howard Grabois). Zoltán Kövecses (with Palmer) examines the complementary relationship of social construction theory to the search for universals of emotional experience. (Series B)

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 18] 1999. vi, 272 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.18

Table of Contents

Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology and Emotional Experience Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi	1
Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches
Language, Primordialism and Sentiment Harold Schiffman	25
Transforming Laments: Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies James M. Wilce, Jr.	39
Dignity in Tragedy: How Javanese Women Speak of Emotion Laine Berman	65
Public and Private Voices: Japanese Style Shifting and the Display of Affective Intensity Cynthia Dickel Dunn	107
Cognitive Approaches
From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story Janet S. Shibamoto Smith	131
Sounds of the Heart and Mind: Mimetics of Emotional States in Japanese Debra J. Occhi	151
Bursting with Grief, Erupting with Shame: A Conceptual and Grammatical Analysis of Emotion-Tropes in Tagalog Gary B. Palmer, Heather Bennett and Les Stacey	171
The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics: Lexical Semantics and the L2 Acquisition of Love, Fear and Happiness Howard Grabois	201
Theory
Language And Emotion Concepts: What Experientialists and Social Constructionists Have in Common Zoltán Kövecses and Gary B. Palmer	237
Name Index	263
Subject Index	265

“[...] excellent examples of how it is possible to explore the rich complexity of 'emotion' without necessarily adopting an overly reductionist or determinist account.”

C. Jason Throop, Department of Anthropology, UCLA in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 8, no. 3, 2001

“Today, we know language does not only have a heart; language creates a heart, dynamically mediating the construction of emotional meanings in our everyday life. A range of human social realms cannot exist without emotion, which is semiotically mediated trough language use. In this sense, this volume deepens our understanding of the constitutive power of emotive language.”

Keiko Matsuki, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, in Language in Society Vol 30:4 (2001)

Subjects

Consciousness Research

Consciousness research

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: JMT – States of consciousness

BISAC Subject: PSY020000 – PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 99033999

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