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Title Consensus and dissent : negotiating emotion in the public space / edited by Anne Storch.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Culture and Language Use ; v. 19
Culture and language use.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Consensus and Dissent -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- References -- 2. Towards an integrative anthropology of emotion: A case study from Yogyakarta -- Towards a relatable anthropology of emotion -- Affect and feeling -- Emotion and emotive -- The field -- Encounters -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Anger and sadness in Indonesian public emotional expression -- Introduction -- Some background: An ethnographic and linguistic approach to emotional change -- Changing Indonesian frameworks of emotional expression -- Expressing anger in Sumba: Blurring of genres with deadly consequences -- The Dutch colonial encounter with the angry man -- Confrontation of genres -- Religious emotion in political and economic life -- Arabic and the Shamanic creation of sadness -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. The Trobriand Islanders' control of their public display of emotions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritual communication and its role for emotion control in the public behaviour -- 2.1 The social obligation to weep for a deceased person -- 2.2 Morals and manners prevailing for unmarried adolescents -- 2.3 Morals and manners prevailing for a married couple's emotion control -- 2.4 Control your emotions! If teasing provokes you, you've lost your face -- 3. A maxim crucial for the Trobriand Islanders' construction of their social reality -- References -- Appendix -- 5. Emotions in Jamaican: African conceptualizations, emblematicity and multimodality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Body parts and emotion -- 3. Multimodal expressions of emotions: The case of kiss-teeth -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. Emotion, gazes and gestures in Wolof -- Introduction -- 1. Irritation -- 1.1 Gaze as trigger -- 1.2 Inattention as Trigger -- 1.3 Interjections and sound emissions.
1.4 Facial expressions -- 2. Shame and related attitudes -- 2.1 Understanding the concept of shame in Wolof -- 2.2 Related attitudes -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- 7. Programmed by culture? Why gestures became the preferred ways of expressing emotions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The value of kunya and its impact on Hausa culture -- 3. Gestures and paralinguistic sounds as indicators of emotions -- 3.1 Silent expression of emotions -- gestures as suppressed words -- 3.2 Gesture and exclamation as a culturally accepted way of calling attention to something -- 3.3 Nonverbal outbursts of emotion: A cluster of gestures -- 3.4 A nonverbal component in an emotional utterance -- 3.5 Speech-synchronized gestures expressing emotions -- 4. Summary -- References -- Films and Recordings -- 8. Emotion and society: Experiences from Cherang'any (Kalenjin) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic strategies for expressing emotional states -- 2.1 Experiencer constructions -- 2.2 Body parts as the seat of emotions -- 2.3 Perception verbs -- 2.4 Ideophones as emotional quality markers -- 3. The expressions of a state of missing: Emo -- 4. The taboo of emotional exhibition -- 5. Performing emotions -- 6. The consequences of showing emotions: A case study of crying -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- 9. Labeling, describing and indicating emotions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communicating emotions -- 3. Literal expressions -- 4. Figurative expressions -- 4.1 Non-experiencer verbs in figurative expressions of emotion -- 4.2 Metonymic expressions -- 5. Bodily reactions indicating emotions -- 5.1 Fright, anger -- 5.2 Shame -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- 2. Language, power and feeling in a Jukun community -- 3. Concealment and obscenity as gendered practices -- 4. Memory and storytelling.
5. Registers of emotion -- 6. Edgeland ruins and lament -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. Emotions in Goemai (Nigeria): Perspectives from a documentary corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Goemai and the Goemai corpus -- 3. Emotions in the Goemai corpus -- 3.1 Elicited emotion expressions -- 3.2 Emotions in the naturalistic data -- 4. S'ók k'wál: To hide one's speech -- 5. Discussion -- References -- 12. Affecting the Gods: Fear in Ancient Egyptian religious texts -- 1. The sources -- Advantages and obstacles -- 2. Between awe and horror -- Egyptian terms for fear -- 3. Who's afraid of? Timid groups within the realm of the dead -- 4. The fear within: Aspects of Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- 5. Masses, individuals, masses of individuals and the (public) space: Emotions and emotionology -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Additional glossing abbreviations -- References -- Author index -- Index of subjects and languages.
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Subject Emotive (Linguistics)
Emotive (Linguistics)
Emotions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Emotions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Emotions.
Emotions -- Anthropological aspects.
Emotions -- Anthropological aspects.
Language and emotions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Language and emotions.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis.
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
Semantics.
Semantics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Storch, Anne, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Consensus and dissent. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027244550 (DLC) 2016057187
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