The Routledge handbook of language and emotion

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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, psychology, communication studies, education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book: explores and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in the five key areas of language socialisation; culture, translation and transformation; poetry, pragmatics and power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities; situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated Western thought relating to emotions and their management; provides a unique insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa, especially in the context of culture. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and emotion into their work. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments 1 Perspectives on emotion, emotionality, and language Janina Fenigsen, James M. Wilce, and Rebekah Wilce Emotion in mind, soul, and body Emotion, reason, and other binaries Emotion: Norms and values Emotion and language in history Emotion and language: Contemporary themes In conclusion Note References 1 Perspectives on emotion, emotionality, and language: Past and present Emotion in mind, soul, and body Emotion, reason, and other binaries Emotion: Norms and values Emotion and language in history Emotion and language: Contemporary themes In conclusion Note References Part I Emotion and language socialization 2 Insights from infancy: The felt basis of language in interpersonal engagement Communicating with babies The musicality and poetics of early communication Qualities of feeling and qualities of movement Being touched and being moved Felt meaning and infant semiosis Meaning and imagination Conclusion References 3 Emotion and affect in language socialization Introduction Background Reconsidering empathy training Excerpt 1: Feelings of the baby Excerpt 2: Desires and feelings of a pet hamster (a version of this excerpt appears in Burdelski 2017). Young children’s displays of empathic understanding: Attributing feelings and desires to others in the social world Excerpt 3: Desire of a toy dinosaur Excerpt 4: Feelings of penguins at a zoo Excerpt 5: Desires of a toddler Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References 4 Unfolding emotions: The language and socialization of anger in Madagascar Introduction Field and research The vocabulary of anger (seky) Formation of anger in childhood Conclusion Notes References Part II Language and emotion: Culture, translation, and transformation 5 Affect in the circulation of cultural forms Iconic-indexical bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms Semantico-referential bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms A note on affective space Cross-clause conditional bases for the affective propulsion of cultural forms Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References 6 Emotion, language, and cultural transformation Introduction Emotion and language in cultural transformation Indexical meaning of emotions in shifting linguistic and cultural formations Reflexive management of language and emotion as mechanism of control Performative power of language and emotion in resistance and activism Conclusions Note References 7 Emotion in and through language contraction Introduction Nationalism, loyalty, and heritage Intergenerational gaps Discourses of death and endangerment Language mixing Conclusion Note References 8 Cultural variations in language and emotion Understanding emotion terms Methodological approaches to emotion terminology Technological trends in the expression of emotion Conclusion References 9 The semantics of emotion: From theory to empirical analysis Introduction Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for describing and comparing emotions The semantics of emotion: a cross-linguistic perspective Culture-specific emotion terms Examples of culture-specific emotions in Chinese Summary Appendix I. Selected NSM emotion research by linguistic device Appendix II. Selected NSM emotion research by language Notes References Part III Language and emotion: Poetry, pragmatics and power 10 Language and emotion: Paralinguistic and performative dimensions What is emotion? Paralinguistics and emotion Performance, emotion, and linguistics Formalist domination of linguistics and sociolinguistics Emotion and spontineity in linguistic production Frames and performative accounting procedures Modality—direct expression of affectivity and emotion A case study: Emotional expression in Persian Iranian personal orientation Style and emotion Words in play Emotion and language Patterns of Iranian emotional expression Performing sincerity Persian glosses for sincerity Performance practice and sincerity Conclusion Notes References 11 Poetry and emotion: Poetic communion, ordeals of language, intimate grammars, and complex remindings Introduction Poetic communion Cultural intimacy and intimate grammars Ordeals of language Navajo English Navlish in Navajo poetry The intimacies of Navajo Complex reminding Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References 12 Language, music, and emotion in lament poetry: The embodiment and performativity of emotions in Karelian laments Introduction Conveying and expressing emotions Multimodal expression and embodiment of emotions Performance and increasing of emotional intensity Conclusion Notes References Bibliography 13 Expressing emotion through forms of address in Colombian Spanish Spanish forms of address for the second person singular The forms of address of Colombian Spanish Address with tú Address with usted Address with sumercé Address with vos Notes References 14 Emoji and the expression of emotion in writing Introduction The emoji code Phatic function Emotive function Emoji as a Language Concluding remarks References 15 Emotion and metalanguage Passionate talk about African languages: Historical shifts in white Kenyan language ideologies Fear and speech acts: Stance, emotion, and metalanguage in white Kenyan attitudes toward the African occult Conclusion Notes References 16 Autism and emotion: Situating autistic emotionality in interactional, sociocultural, and political contexts Introduction Emotions situated in interpersonal dynamics Emotions situated in interactional and sociocultural contexts The politics of autistic emotionality Conclusion References 17 Feeling the Voice Affect, Media, and Communication Mediated affect and ethnography Language and mediation Voice, media, affect Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References 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 Introduction Relationships, emotion, and the body Biocultural perspectives on emotion and the body Anthropological approaches to language, emotion, and the body A biocultural-linguistic study of language, emotion, and the body in romantic relationships Case study: Wyatt Mills and Lottie Jones Discussion and conclusion Acknowledgments Note References 19 Emotion in the language of prayer A note on terminology Emotion and the efficacy of prayer The linguistic forms of emotion in prayer The pragmatic role of emotion in prayer Conclusion: Suggestions for future research Notes References 20 Emotion and gender in personal narratives Emotion, gender, and narrative Narrative and emotion as self-defining Developmental foundations Gendered narratives across adulthood Individual and contextual factors in gendered narratives Broadening the framework Conclusions References Part V Emotion communities 21 Laughter, lament, and stigma: The making and breaking of sign language communities Laughter and the making of community: The New Zealand Deaf community AIDS, sorrow, and stigma Coalition Sida des Sourds du Québec: Building a community in times of trouble The circulation of emotion narratives and accessing socioeconomic resources Notes References 22 Becoming blessed: Happiness and faith in Pentecostal discourse The Harvest Ministry and a rising indigenous Fijian middle class Becoming blessed through discourse Narrating a blessed life Concluding thoughts Notes References 23 Learning healing relationality: Dynamics of religion and emotion Religion and the dynamics of emotion Theoretical approaches on emotion in religion Religion in the emotional and therapeutic culture Examples of religion and emotional relationality: Two cases Emotions in angel spirituality Emotional crisis, women, and angels Emotional contacts and healing rituals Rhetoric of emotion in angel spirituality Conclusion: From emotions in religion to therapeutic spirituality Notes References 24 Emotions and the evolution of human auditory language: An application of evolutionary and neuro sociology Primate evolution and the neurology of language Two methods for discovering the evolutionary origins of language The evolution of the neocortex, auditory language, and culture Conclusion References Index