About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Editor’s Introduction
Perspectives on Emotion, Emotionality, and Language: Past and Present
Part I. Emotion and Language Socialization
Insights from Infancy: The Felt Basis of Language in Interpersonal Engagement
Emotion and Affect in Language Socialization
Unfolding Emotions: The Language and Socialization of Anger in Madagascar
Part II. Language and Emotion: Culture, Translation, and Transformation
Affect in the Circulation of Cultural Forms
Emotion, Language, and Cultural Transformation
Emotion in and Through Language Contraction
Cultural Variations in Language and Emotion
The Semantics of Emotion: From Theory to Empirical Analysis
Part III. Language and Emotion: Poetry, Pragmatics and Power
Language and Emotion: Paralinguistic and Performative Dimensions
Poetry and Emotion: Poetic Communion, Ordeals of Language, Intimate Grammars, and Complex Remindings
Language, Music, and Emotion in Lament Poetry: The Embodiment and Performativity of Emotions in Karelian Laments
Expressing Emotion through Forms of Address in Colombian Spanish
Emoji and the Expression of Emotion in Writing
Emotion and Metalanguage
Autism and Emotion: Situating Autistic Emotionality in Interactional, Sociocultural, and Political Contexts
Vocal Affects and Mediated Communication
Part IV. Language, Emotion, and the Affective Body-Self
Language, Emotion, and the Body: Combining Linguistic and Biological Approaches to Interactions Between Romantic Partners
Emotion in the Language of Prayer
Emotion and Gender in Personal Narratives
Part V. Emotion Communities
Laughter, Joy, Sorrow, Stigma: The Making and Breaking of Sign Language Communities
Becoming Blessed: Happiness and Faith in Pentecostal Discourse
Learning Healing Relationality: Dynamics of Religion and Emotion
Emotions and the Evolution of Human Auditory Language
Index
About the Author :
Sonya E. Pritzker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. She is a linguistic and medical anthropologist whose research investigates how both health and healthcare are mediated by interaction in multiple settings. She has published extensively on translation in Chinese medicine, psychology in China, and the communication of emotion in intimate relationships.
Janina Fenigsen is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching interests include race, language policy, language contact and creolization, linguistic heritage, health promotion, neoliberalism, and semiotics of emotion. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern Arizona.
James M. Wilce is Emeritus Professor at Northern Arizona University. His research merges linguistic, psychological, and medical anthropology, and has included studies on lament in Bangladesh and Finland, and emotion pedagogies in Arizona. He is the author of many scholarly publications addressing language and emotion.
Review :
"This timely collection of original essays showcases innovative research that explores the multiplicity of ways emotion permeates verbal, nonverbal and visual communicative resources throughout the life cycle and across genres in often surprising ways. Drawing on a range of generative theoretical and methodological frameworks and investigating interdisciplinary connections, these intelligently curated essays highlight the centrality of systematically investigating situated practices and their linguistic and cultural ideologies as key to understanding commonalities and variations across persons, activities, and communities, and the sociohistorical, political, and interpersonal consequences of these patterns. Read them, and be inspired."
Bambi B Schieffelin, New York University, USA
"This Handbook brings together a wide range of cases, authors, and disciplinary approaches to a topic of great importance. The chapters variously consider major issues such as how the notions of "language" and "emotion" have been understood in different times and places, how they are bound up with norms and values, and how they are linked to conceptions of body, reason, self, and society. The collection’s many strong contributions outline the state of the art on this topic and make the volume an indispensable aid to scholars and students alike."
Judith Irvine, University of Michigan, USA
"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers an impressive multitude of perspectives on the intersection of emotion, language, culture and self. In this handbook, leading scholars from various strands of humanities and social sciences paint fascinating pictures of the historical, cultural and situational variation of emotional practices."
Anssi Peräkylä, University of Helsinki, Finland
