Language and Emotion (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 8
Transcripts......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Feelingful language......Page 11
Why this book Why now......Page 12
Writing about emotion who does it and how......Page 16
Overview of the argument and chapters......Page 18
Part III Identification and identity......Page 24
Part IV Histories of language and emotion......Page 25
Part I Theory......Page 27
1 Defining the domain......Page 29
What is language?......Page 30
Anthropological lenses on emotion......Page 33
What is emotion? How is it related to affect?......Page 38
Affect and emotion: cultural studies, semiotics, and anthropology......Page 40
Infant development......Page 42
Emotion, sociality, and intersubjectivity......Page 43
Embodiment, affect, and language......Page 44
Ghosts of Descartes......Page 45
Emotion: a single, coherent domain?......Page 46
2 The relationship of language and emotion......Page 49
In words (the lexicon)?......Page 50
Passion in phonology, sound iconicity?......Page 52
Is the emotion in the voice?......Page 53
In morphology and syntax?......Page 54
Is it in discourse-level structure, i.e., poetics? genre?......Page 55
Does emotion lie in “context of situation,” or  in genres as structures of expectation?......Page 56
Interaction and e-motion......Page 59
Gesture, stance, and embodied affect......Page 61
Deep play......Page 62
Language socialization and the socialization of emotion......Page 65
Social referencing......Page 67
Variation in cultural concepts of language and socializing practices......Page 68
Socialization and the social ontogeny of the self......Page 69
Cognitive theories of language and emotion......Page 70
Reddy\'s hybrid approach......Page 71
Phenomenological approaches to feeling, embodiment, and discourse......Page 73
Language, emotion, and the political economy......Page 74
Introduction......Page 77
Implications of the co-evolution of Homo sapiens, language, and music......Page 78
Language, emotion, and linguistic relativity......Page 79
Metaphor......Page 80
Aesthetics and linguistic relativity......Page 81
Semantic categories and emotion: are emotions natural kinds?......Page 82
Pleased (X was pleased)......Page 84
Emotion, language, and the self......Page 87
Different languages, different feelings? The question of salience......Page 90
\"Phatic communion\" and affect......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 93
Part II Language, Power, and honor......Page 95
Introduction......Page 97
Language, power, and the politics of emotion......Page 99
Passion, parallelism, and the force of political rhetoric......Page 100
Claptrap: oratory and the manipulation of displays of affiliative affect......Page 101
President G. W. Bush in the days following September 11, 2001......Page 103
Generating national sentiment through national memorials: the central place of narrative......Page 105
Language ideologies, power, and hate speech......Page 107
Conclusion......Page 108
6 Status, honorification, and emotion for hire......Page 110
Javanese honorifics and a semiotic theory of language......Page 111
Wolof griots and nobles......Page 112
Emotional language: a sign of the subordinate?......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 114
Part III Identification and identity......Page 117
The place of this chapter in the overall argument......Page 119
Language as emotional object in early Western modernity......Page 121
Adda: a Bengali-modern ideological construction at the nexus of talk and feeling......Page 122
Tamil: parru passion for Tamil......Page 123
\'Apache\' music......Page 124
Language attitudes and linguistic ideologies......Page 125
Linguistic insecurity andas language shame......Page 126
Language and modernity, shame and impurity......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 128
Introduction......Page 129
Ground well trodden......Page 130
Men, language, and emotion......Page 131
Language, desire, and sexuality......Page 132
Gender, indexicality, consciousness: a Lakhota example......Page 134
Indexing gender plus…......Page 135
The boy who became a muni bird: affect and gender in a Papuan language......Page 136
The gendering of lament......Page 137
Gender, emotion, and language shift......Page 139
Revisiting tamilparru and tamilttay......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 142
Part IV Histories of language and emotion......Page 145
Indian aesthetic philosophy and the rasa theory......Page 147
Historical roots of Western theories of emotion: classical and Christian philosophy......Page 150
Europe\'s self-invention as modern and the Otherization of emotion......Page 152
Freud, Elias, Foucault, and the repressive hypothesis......Page 153
Schizophrenia and modernism......Page 155
From Sapir to Ochs......Page 158
Indian and Greek models of emotion and language: recent anthropological invocations......Page 159
Recent linguistic anthropological theory......Page 160
Introduction: historical problems......Page 163
The explosive growth of Pentecostalism......Page 164
Transcription key......Page 165
Sincerity, modernity and Protestant prayer......Page 167
Coffeehouses, language, intimacy, and rationality......Page 168
Two monasteries, two forms of Tibetan Buddhism......Page 169
Humiliation, anger, and shifting ideologies of language......Page 171
Literacy and shifts in meta-emotion, Junigau, Nepal......Page 173
The case of Japanese \'women\'s language\'......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 177
Introduction......Page 178
Class and distinct \"individualisms\" in the US: evidence of the therapy culture......Page 179
Culture and medicine: essentializing Latinos and their language......Page 181
Pathologies of language and emotion at two poles......Page 182
Enregisterment: the emergence of \'psychiatry\' and a \'psychiatric register\'......Page 184
The classifying urge......Page 186
From Kraepelin to the neo-Kraepelinian revolution......Page 187
The psychologization of suffering in Bangla psychiatric discourse......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 191
Reflexivity......Page 192
Language ideologies and the contextualization of emotion......Page 195
Language(s), emotion, and identification......Page 196
The big picture of emotion, language, and the world......Page 198
Looking back, looking ahead......Page 200
Introduction......Page 201
Defining the domain......Page 202
The panhuman and the particular......Page 203
Language, affect, gender, and sexuality......Page 204
Language and the medicalization of emotion......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 206
Glossary......Page 207
References......Page 211
Index......Page 233