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1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion

Edited By Sonya Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, James Wilce Copyright 2020
458 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

454 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

454 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

List of Contributors





Editor’s Introduction









    1. Perspectives on Emotion, Emotionality, and Language: Past and Present




      2. Part I. Emotion and Language Socialization







    2. Insights from Infancy: The Felt Basis of Language in Interpersonal Engagement






    3. Emotion and Affect in Language Socialization






    4. Unfolding Emotions: The Language and Socialization of Anger in Madagascar




      5. Part II. Language and Emotion: Culture, Translation, and Transformation







    5. Affect in the Circulation of Cultural Forms






    6. Emotion, Language, and Cultural Transformation






    7. Emotion in and Through Language Contraction






    8. Cultural Variations in Language and Emotion






    9. The Semantics of Emotion: From Theory to Empirical Analysis




      10. Part III. Language and Emotion: Poetry, Pragmatics and Power







    10. Language and Emotion: Paralinguistic and Performative Dimensions






    11. Poetry and Emotion: Poetic Communion, Ordeals of Language, Intimate Grammars, and Complex Remindings






    12. Language, Music, and Emotion in Lament Poetry: The Embodiment and Performativity of Emotions in Karelian Laments






    13. Expressing Emotion through Forms of Address in Colombian Spanish






    14. Emoji and the Expression of Emotion in Writing






    15. Emotion and Metalanguage






    16. Autism and Emotion: Situating Autistic Emotionality in Interactional, Sociocultural, and Political Contexts






    17. Vocal Affects and Mediated Communication




      18. 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






    19. Emotion in the Language of Prayer






    20. Emotion and Gender in Personal Narratives




      21. Part V. Emotion Communities







    21. Laughter, Joy, Sorrow, Stigma: The Making and Breaking of Sign Language Communities






    22. Becoming Blessed: Happiness and Faith in Pentecostal Discourse






    23. Learning Healing Relationality: Dynamics of Religion and Emotion






    24. Emotions and the Evolution of Human Auditory Language




Index

Biography

Sonya E. Pritzker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. She is a linguistic and medical anthropologist whose research investigates how both health and healthcare are mediated by interaction in multiple settings. She has published extensively on translation in Chinese medicine, psychology in China, and the communication of emotion in intimate relationships.





Janina Fenigsen is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching interests include　race, language policy, language contact and creolization, linguistic heritage, health promotion, neoliberalism, and semiotics of emotion. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern Arizona.





James M. Wilce is Emeritus Professor at Northern Arizona University. His research merges linguistic, psychological, and medical anthropology, and has included studies on lament in Bangladesh and Finland, and emotion pedagogies in Arizona. He is the author of many scholarly publications addressing language and emotion.

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