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1 online resource |
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Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; volume 4 |
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Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts ; v. 4
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| Contents |
The Language of Emotions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of tables ; List of figures; Abbreviations and conventions; Recordings; Orthographic conventions; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Defining emotions; 1.1 Universalists and relativists; 1.2 Working definition; 1.2.1 Emotions are private states; 1.2.2 Other criteria and properties; 1.2.3 Summary; 1.3 The concept of emotion in Dalabon; 2. Linguistic approaches to emotions; 2.1 Expression vs description; 2.2 Focus on meaning vs focus on metaphor |
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2.2.1 Describing meanings in Dalabon2.2.2 Reflecting on tropes; 3. Structure of the work; Chapter 2. Ethnographic context; 1. Who are the Dalabon?; 2. Pre-colonial life style, environment and connection to the land; 2.1 Social organization; 2.1.1 Kinship; 2.1.2 Marriages; 2.1.3 Subsections; 2.2 Cosmogonies; 2.3 Secrecy and gender division; 3. Colonization and recent history; 3.1 Dalabon life style; 3.2 The Dalabon and their historical background; 4. Emotions in the Dalabon context; 4.1 The status of emotions; 4.2 Managing painful emotions; Chapter 3. Linguistic context; 1. Linguistic context |
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1.1 The local language ecology1.1.1 Dalabon; 1.1.2 Kriol; 1.2 Gathering data on emotions in Dalabon; 1.2.1 Vantage point; 1.2.2 Caveats and methodological solutions; 1.2.3 Limitations of the data; 1.2.4 Corpora and their indexation; 1.2.5 Glosses; 2. The Dalabon language; 2.1 Profile and previous works; 2.2 The verb template; 2.3 Noun incorporation; 2.3.1 Syntactic noun incorporation and lexicalized compounds; 2.3.2 Lexicalization and metaphors; 2.4 Body-part nouns and nominal subclasses; 2.4.1 The animate-part nominal subclass; 2.4.2 Morphosyntactic behavior of animate-part nouns |
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Chapter 4. Expressive features1. Methodology; 1.1 Data; 1.2 Categories; 1.3 Comparison with Kriol; 2. Other emotional devices; 2.1 Apprehensive mood; 2.2 Reported speech; 2.3 Demonstratives; 3. Diminutives; 3.1 -Wurd with nouns referring to animates; 3.1.1 Categories not defined by age; 3.1.2 Categories defined by age; 3.1.3 Distribution; 3.1.4 Other animates; 3.2 -Wurd on nouns referring to inanimates; 3.2.1 Emotional connotations; 3.2.2 Softening pragmatic functions; 3.3 Verbs; 3.3.1 Scalar senses; 3.3.2 Emotional senses; 3.3.3 Softening functions; 3.4 -Wurd on other word classes; 3.5 Yaw- |
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3.6 Conclusions4. Emotive interjections; 4.1 Definitions; 4.2 Emotive interjections in Dalabon; 4.3 Core emotive interjections; 4.3.1 Weh-no; 4.3.2 Bordo(h); 4.3.3 Woywoy; 4.3.4 Comparison; 4.3.5 Note on bobala; 4.3.6 Conclusions; 5. Emotional prosodic features; 5.1 Variations in pitch; 5.1.1 Emotional prosodic contour; 5.1.2 Contexts; 5.1.3 High pitch; 5.1.4 Other contours; 5.2 Phonation and intensity; 5.2.1 Creakiness; 5.2.2 Whispering; 5.2.3 Lower intensity; 5.3 The 'sad register'; 5.4 Conclusions; 6. Expressives: Final remarks; Chapter 5. The lexicon: Structure |
| Summary |
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and analyzes how Dalabon speakers express emotions (using interjections, prosody, evaluative morphology) and the words they use to describe and discuss emotions. Like many languages, Dalabon makes broad use of body-part words in descriptions of emotions. The volume analyzes the figurative fun |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Dalabon language
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Language and emotions.
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Emotive (Linguistics)
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
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Dalabon language
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Emotive (Linguistics)
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Language and emotions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014045111 |
| ISBN |
9789027269201 |
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9027269203 |
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9027204071 |
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9789027204073 |
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