Language and Emotion
Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
By james m. wilce
Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University
Cambridge University Press,
2009
246 Pages
1.7 MB
The 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.
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: feeling, language, and processes of identification
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
12 Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
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