The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which incorporates disciplines such as linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication studies, education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book:
explores and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in the five key areas of language socialisation; culture, translation and transformation; poetry, pragmatics and power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities;
situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated Western thought relating to emotions and their management;
provides a unique insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa, especially in the context of culture.
With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and emotion into their work.
Author(s): Sonya E Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, James M Wilce (eds.)
Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 442
City: London and New York
Tags: Linguistics; Languages; Emotion; Psychology; Cognition
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
1
Perspectives on emotion, emotionality, and language
Janina Fenigsen, James M. Wilce, and Rebekah Wilce
Emotion in mind, soul, and body
Emotion, reason, and other binaries
Emotion: Norms and values
Emotion and language in history
Emotion and language: Contemporary themes
In conclusion
Note
References
1 Perspectives on emotion, emotionality, and language: Past and present
Emotion in mind, soul, and body
Emotion, reason, and other binaries
Emotion: Norms and values
Emotion and language in history
Emotion and language: Contemporary themes
In conclusion
Note
References
Part I Emotion and language socialization
2 Insights from infancy: The felt basis of language in interpersonal engagement
Communicating with babies
The musicality and poetics of early communication
Qualities of feeling and qualities of movement
Being touched and being moved
Felt meaning and infant semiosis
Meaning and imagination
Conclusion
References
3 Emotion and affect in language socialization
Introduction
Background
Reconsidering empathy training
Excerpt 1: Feelings of the baby
Excerpt 2: Desires and feelings of a pet hamster (a version of this excerpt appears in Burdelski 2017).
Young children’s displays of empathic understanding: Attributing feelings and desires to others in the social world
Excerpt 3: Desire of a toy dinosaur
Excerpt 4: Feelings of penguins at a zoo
Excerpt 5: Desires of a toddler
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
References
4 Unfolding emotions: The language and socialization of anger in Madagascar
Introduction
Field and research
The vocabulary of anger (seky)
Formation of anger in childhood
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Language and emotion: Culture, translation, and transformation
5 Affect in the circulation of cultural forms
Iconic-indexical bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms
Semantico-referential bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms
A note on affective space
Cross-clause conditional bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
6 Emotion, language, and cultural transformation
Introduction
Emotion and language in cultural transformation
Indexical meaning of emotions in shifting linguistic and cultural formations
Reflexive management of language and emotion as mechanism of control
Performative power of language and emotion in resistance and activism
Conclusions
Note
References
7 Emotion in and through language contraction
Introduction
Nationalism, loyalty, and heritage
Intergenerational gaps
Discourses of death and endangerment
Language mixing
Conclusion
Note
References
8 Cultural variations in language and emotion
Understanding emotion terms
Methodological approaches to emotion terminology
Technological trends in the expression of emotion
Conclusion
References
9 The semantics of emotion: From theory to empirical analysis
Introduction
Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for describing and comparing emotions
The semantics of emotion: a cross-linguistic perspective
Culture-specific emotion terms
Examples of culture-specific emotions in Chinese
Summary
Appendix I. Selected NSM emotion research by linguistic device
Appendix II. Selected NSM emotion research by language
Notes
References
Part III Language and emotion: Poetry, pragmatics and power
10 Language and emotion: Paralinguistic and performative dimensions
What is emotion?
Paralinguistics and emotion
Performance, emotion, and linguistics
Formalist domination of linguistics and sociolinguistics
Emotion and spontineity in linguistic production
Frames and performative accounting procedures
Modality—direct expression of affectivity and emotion
A case study: Emotional expression in Persian
Iranian personal orientation
Style and emotion
Words in play
Emotion and language
Patterns of Iranian emotional expression
Performing sincerity
Persian glosses for sincerity
Performance practice and sincerity
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Poetry and emotion: Poetic communion, ordeals of language, intimate grammars, and complex remindings
Introduction
Poetic communion
Cultural intimacy and intimate grammars
Ordeals of language
Navajo English
Navlish in Navajo poetry
The intimacies of Navajo
Complex reminding
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
12 Language, music, and emotion in lament poetry: The embodiment and performativity of emotions in Karelian laments
Introduction
Conveying and expressing emotions
Multimodal expression and embodiment of emotions
Performance and increasing of emotional intensity
Conclusion
Notes
References
Bibliography
13 Expressing emotion through forms of address in Colombian Spanish
Spanish forms of address for the second person singular
The forms of address of Colombian Spanish
Address with tú
Address with usted
Address with sumercé
Address with vos
Notes
References
14 Emoji and the expression of emotion in writing
Introduction
The emoji code
Phatic function
Emotive function
Emoji as a Language
Concluding remarks
References
15 Emotion and metalanguage
Passionate talk about African languages: Historical shifts in white Kenyan language ideologies
Fear and speech acts: Stance, emotion, and metalanguage in white Kenyan attitudes toward the African occult
Conclusion
Notes
References
16 Autism and emotion: Situating autistic emotionality in interactional, sociocultural, and political contexts
Introduction
Emotions situated in interpersonal dynamics
Emotions situated in interactional and sociocultural contexts
The politics of autistic emotionality
Conclusion
References
17 Feeling the Voice Affect, Media, and Communication
Mediated affect and ethnography
Language and mediation
Voice, media, affect
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Part IV Language, emotion, and the affective body-self
18 Language, emotion, and the body: Combining linguistic and biological approaches to interactions between romantic partners
Introduction
Relationships, emotion, and the body
Biocultural perspectives on emotion and the body
Anthropological approaches to language, emotion, and the body
A biocultural-linguistic study of language, emotion, and the body in romantic relationships
Case study: Wyatt Mills and Lottie Jones
Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgments
Note
References
19 Emotion in the language of prayer
A note on terminology
Emotion and the efficacy of prayer
The linguistic forms of emotion in prayer
The pragmatic role of emotion in prayer
Conclusion: Suggestions for future research
Notes
References
20 Emotion and gender in personal narratives
Emotion, gender, and narrative
Narrative and emotion as self-defining
Developmental foundations
Gendered narratives across adulthood
Individual and contextual factors in gendered narratives
Broadening the framework
Conclusions
References
Part V Emotion communities
21 Laughter, lament, and stigma: The making and breaking of sign language communities
Laughter and the making of community: The New Zealand Deaf community
AIDS, sorrow, and stigma
Coalition Sida des Sourds du Québec: Building a community in times of trouble
The circulation of emotion narratives and accessing socioeconomic resources
Notes
References
22 Becoming blessed: Happiness and faith in Pentecostal discourse
The Harvest Ministry and a rising indigenous Fijian middle class
Becoming blessed through discourse
Narrating a blessed life
Concluding thoughts
Notes
References
23 Learning healing relationality: Dynamics of religion and emotion
Religion and the dynamics of emotion
Theoretical approaches on emotion in religion
Religion in the emotional and therapeutic culture
Examples of religion and emotional relationality: Two cases
Emotions in angel spirituality
Emotional crisis, women, and angels
Emotional contacts and healing rituals
Rhetoric of emotion in angel spirituality
Conclusion: From emotions in religion to therapeutic spirituality
Notes
References
24 Emotions and the evolution of human auditory language: An application of evolutionary and neuro sociology
Primate evolution and the neurology of language
Two methods for discovering the evolutionary origins of language
The evolution of the neocortex, auditory language, and culture
Conclusion
References
Index
