Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates

Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language primordialism in Tamil (Harold Schiffman), the erasure of lamentation in Bangla in favor of referential language praxis (James Wilce), women's discourse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155619434X
• ISBN13: 9781556194344
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages