The Language of Emotions : Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation.

The Language of Emotions : Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation.

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our...

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Main Author: Niemeier, Susanne
Other Authors: Dirven, René
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
Subjects:
Emotions > Congresses.
Emotions and cognition > Congresses.
Emotions > Sociological aspects > Congresses.
Language and emotions > Congresses.
Interpersonal communication > Congresses.
Emotions
Emotions and cognition
Emotions > Sociological aspects
Interpersonal communication
Language and emotions
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • THE LANGUAGE OF EMOTIONS; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; I. THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONS IN LANGUAGE; Is the "psychologic" of trust universal?; The expressive function of language: Towards a cognitive semantic approach; Toward a semiotic theory of affect; Emotions as cause and the cause of emotions; II. THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EMOTIONS IN SPECIFIC CULTURES; Dholuo emotional language: An overview; The prepositions we use in the construal of emotion: Why do we say fed up with but sick and tired of?1; Space, reference, and emotional involvement.
  • Surprise, surprise: The iconicity-conventionality scale of emotionsIII. DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACHES TO EMOTIONS; The acquisition of verbal expressions for internal states in German A descriptive, explorative, longitudinal study; On the usage of emotional language: A developmental view of the tip of an iceberg; Emotion talk(s): The role of perspective in the construction of emotions; A response to Michael Bamberg; IV. EMOTIONS IN DISCOURSE; French interjections and their use in discourse1 ah dis donc les vieux souvenirs; The contextualization of affect in reported dialogues.
  • Nonverbal expression of emotions in a business negotiationEmotions and emotional language in English and German news stories; Subject Index.

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