Emotion Talk Across Corpora

by Monika Bednarek

Book Overview

This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical evidence and corpus-linguistic methods, but also qualitative text analyses, the author examines how expressions that describe emotions are employed in a large corpus of conversational, newspaper, fictional and academic English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113752331X
• ISBN13: 9781137523310
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"