1st Edition
Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole The Expression of Emotions
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
Biography
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.
