Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Transcripts; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Feelingful language; Why this book Why now; Writing about emotion who does it and how; Overview of the argument and chapters; Part I Theory; Part II Language power and honor; Part III Identification and identity; Part IV Histories of language and emotion; Part I Theory; 1 Defining the domain; What is language?; Anthropological lenses on emotion; What is emotion? How is it related to affect?; Emotion, affect, social life; Ghosts of Descartes; Emotion: a single, coherent domain?
Summary
Analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index
