James M. Wilce

Language and Emotion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864176
• ISBN-10: 0521864178
• Artikelnr.: 26056770

Autorenporträt

James M. Wilce is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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
Conclusion.