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Language and Emotion

James M Wilce author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Apr '09

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This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language.

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. This book analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world.Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.

'… a must-read for anyone interested in language or emotion.' Laura M. Ahearn, Rutgers University

ISBN: 9780521682824

Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 12mm

Weight: 400g

244 pages