Languages of sentiment
Subtitle: cultural constructions of emotional substrates
By: edited by Gary B. Palmer, Debra J. Occhi.
Contributors: Palmer, Gary B., 1942-; Occhi, Debra J.; Society for Linguistic Anthropology (U.S.)
Series: Advances in consciousness research,; v. 18
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Language and culture -- Congresses.; Emotions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference held 1996, and sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic anthropology and emotional experience / Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi; title: Language, primordialism, and sentiment / Harold Schiffman; title: Transforming laments / James M. Wilce Jr.; title: Dignity in tragedy / Laine Berman; title: Public and private voices / Cynthia Dickel Dunn; title: From hiren to happî-endo / Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith; title: Sounds of the heart and mind / Debra J. Occhi; title: Bursting with grief, erupting with shame / Gary B. Palmer, Heather Bennett, and Les Stacey; title: The convergence of sociocultural theory and cognitive linguistics / Howard Grabois; title: Language and emotion concepts / Zoltán Kövecses and Gary B. Palmer.