Language and Emotion: An Introduction by James M. Wilce (English) Hardcover Book

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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.

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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.

Author Biography

James M. Wilce is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Theory: 1. Defining the domain; 2. The relationship of language and emotion; 3. Approaches to language and emotion; 4. The panhuman and the particular; Part II. Language, Power, and Honor: 5. Language, emotion, power, and politics; 6. Status, honorification, and emotion for hire; Part III. Identification and Identity: 7. Language as emotional object; 8. Language, affect, gender, and sexuality; Part IV. Histories of Language and Emotion: 9. A history of theories; 10. Shifting forms of language and emotion; 11. Language and the medicalization of emotion; Conclusion.

Review

'... a must-read for anyone interested in language or emotion.' Laura M. Ahearn, Rutgers University

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'… a must-read for anyone interested in language or emotion.' Laura M. Ahearn, Rutgers University

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This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.

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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.

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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.

Details ISBN0521864178 Author James M. Wilce Short Title LANGUAGE & EMOTION Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521864178 ISBN-13 9780521864176 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 306.44 Series Number 25 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-05-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle An Introduction Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 233 Series Studies in the Social & Cultural Foundations of Language Affiliation Northern Arizona University, USA Illustrations 1 Maps Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2009-04-09 AU Release Date 2009-04-09 NZ Release Date 2009-04-09 We've got this

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