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Language and Emotion

Language and Emotion

Wilce, James M.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Book 25

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521864178
ISBN13: 9780521864176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 9 2009
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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