Encoding emotions in African languages
By: edited by Gian Claudio Batic ; with contributions by Maduabuchi Agbo, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, Sergio Baldi, Gian Claudio Batic, Olivier Bondéelle, Kathryn M. De Luna, Elisa Fiorio, Laura McPherson, Akin Odebunmi, Kirill Prokhorov
Series: LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 84; LINCOM studies in African linguistics -- 84.
Publisher: LINCOM Europa
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Muenchen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9783862880492
Subjects: Language and emotions; Psycholinguistics; African languages; Gefühl; Psychological aspects; Sprachlicher Code; Afrikanische Sprachen
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Affect in ancient Africa : historical linguistics and the challenge of "emotion talk" / Kathryn M. de Luna; title: From body to emotion in Wolof : a phraseology process / Olivier Bondéelle; title: Structural correlates of "liver" expressions in Dogon emotional vocabulary / Laura McPherson, Kirill Prokhorov; title: Emotions, colours and qualities : an overview of Hausa ideophones / Sergio Baldi; title: The syntax and semantics of Igbo verbs of emotion / Maduabuchi Agbo; title: Nigerian Pidgin and the construction of emotions in clinical encounters / Akin Odebunmi; title: Fear as a factor in including outsiders among the Tupuri (Chad) / Elisa Fiorio; title: Emotion language in Akan : the case of anger / Gladys Nyarko Ansah; title: Love encoding in Hausa : sources and conceptual models / Gian Claudio Batic.