Maïa Ponsonnet

Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole

The Expression of Emotions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first to explore the influence of the formal properties of language on the expression of emotions, as well as the first description of the linguistic encoding of emotions in a creole language. The cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and other social scientists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781138601352
• ISBN-10: 1138601357
• Artikelnr.: 57999460

Autorenporträt

Maïa Ponsonnet is an anthropological linguist currently based at The University of Western Australia in Perth. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University (Canberra, 2014), with additional background in Philosophy (PhD Université Paris-8, 2005). She has extensive experience working with speakers of Indigenous languages in communities of inland Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia. In line with her combined linguistic, philosophical and anthropological interests, Maïa Ponsonnet's research concerns the role of language in humans' lives, and in particular how language may channel or modify people's experience and management of emotions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Emotions 3. Linguistic Context and Methods 4. Emotion
Lexica: Different Forms, Same Meanings 5. Highly Conventionalized Prosodic
Contours: Same Forms, Different Meanings 6. Evaluative Morphology:
Replacing Absent Linguistic Resources 7. Figurative Language: A Difference
8. Figurative Language Beyond Conventions: Different Language, Same
Concepts