Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates (Advances in Consciousness Research)

ISBN 10: 155619434X / ISBN 13: 9781556194344

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Compan, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates (Advances in Consciousness Research)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Compan
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155619434X
• ISBN 13: 9781556194344
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 (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)