Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.
Maïa Ponsonnet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maïa Ponsonnet plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 42:1 (2018) v, 295 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)
Maïa Ponsonnet
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Syntax
2024 Event plurality and the verbal suffix ‑ (a)bad in Australian Kriol Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 187–218 | Article
The verbal suffix ‑(a)bad is a frequent form in Australian Kriol and is well attested across all described varieties of the language. Despite the prevalence of this suffix, its precise semantics have so far gone undescribed in the literature. In this article, we present a semantic analysis of… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Transfer and applicative constructions in Gunwinyguan languages (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 121–143 | Chapter
This article describes the syntax and semantics of benefactive and comitative constructions in Dalabon, a Gunwinyguan language of Australia (non-Pama-Nyungan). After having described the respective subcategorisation operations and meanings of each of these constructions, I show that the criterion… read more
2020 Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 240–271 | Article
Like most other Australian languages, Warlpiri – a Pama-Nyungan language of the Ngumpin-Yapa group – is rich in figurative expressions that include a body-part noun. In this article we examine the collocations involving two body parts: langa ‘ear’, which mostly relates to cognition; and miyalu… read more
2020 The role of the body in descriptions of emotions: A typology of the Australian continent Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 20–82 | Article
This article presents the first systematic typological study of emotional expressions involving body parts at the scale of a continent, namely the Australian continent. The role of body parts in figurative descriptions of emotions, a well-established phenomenon across the world, is known to be… read more
2020 Introduction: Grammar, culture, and emotion tropes Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Introduction
2018 A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 17–50 | Article
This article presents a preliminary typology of emotional connotations in evaluative morphology, starting with diminutives and augmentatives. I inventory the emotional meanings and connotations found in a sample of nineteen languages for diminutives, and nine languages plus a few additional… read more
2018 Lexical semantics in language shift: Comparing emotion lexica in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol (northern Australia) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1, pp. 92–135 | Article
This article analyzes some of the lexical semantic features of Barunga Kriol, an Australian creole language (Northern Territory, Australia), in comparison with Dalabon, one of the Australian Aboriginal languages replaced by Barunga Kriol. Focusing on the semantic domain of emotions, this study… read more
2018 Expressive values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol (northern Australia) Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 226–255 | Article
This article describes the semantic values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol – an English-based creole of northern Australia –, with a focus on its expressive functions. Barunga Kriol reduplication has two types of functions. Its most frequent meaning is aspectual atelicity. In addition, it has… read more
2018 Introduction: Morphology and emotions: A preliminary typology Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
This volume presents nine chapters dealing with emotionally loaded morphology over four continents. The collection is the result of a workshop on “morphology and emotions” (MorphÉm) held by the first author at Dynamique du Langage (CNRS) in Lyon on 29–30 April 2015. In this introduction, we… read more
2014 Figurative and non-figurative use of body-part words in descriptions of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia) International Journal of Language and Culture 1:1, pp. 98–130 | Article
This article examines the status and functions of body-part words with respect to linguistic descriptions of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia). As in many languages in the world, words denoting invisible (internal) body-parts occur in figurative expressions. These expressions instantiate… read more