Cover of Ponsonnet Maia Ponsonnet: Language of Emotions

Ponsonnet Maia Ponsonnet Language of Emotions

The case of Dalabon (Australia)

Price for Eshop: 2478 Kč (€ 99.1)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

E-Book information

John Benjamins Publishing Company

2014

PDF
How do I buy e-book?

494

978-90-272-6920-1

90-272-6920-3

Annotation

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and analyzes how Dalabon speakers express emotions (using interjections, prosody, evaluative morphology) and the words they use to describe and discuss emotions. Like many languages, Dalabon makes broad use of body-part words in descriptions of emotions. The volume analyzes the figurative functions of these body-part words, as well as their non-figurative functions. Correlations between linguistic features and cultural patterns are systematically questioned.Beyond Australianists and linguists working on emotions, the book will be of interest to anthropological linguists, cognitive linguists, or linguists working on discourse and communication for instance. It is accessible also to non-linguists with an interest in language, in particular anthropologists and psychologists.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.