Encoding Emotions in African Languages
Published in November 2011
Book
160 pages
978-3-86288-049-2 (ISBN)
Description
This edited book deals with the linguistic encoding of emotions in the following African languages: the Bantu-Botatwe group, Wolof, Dogon, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian English Pidgin, Tupuri, and Akan. The contributions included in the volume present a variety of approaches and research perspectives ranging from historical linguistics and ethnoliniguistics to cultural-cognitive and discourse analysis. Each chapter develops a different topic discussing it in detail and from (what we believe to be) an original standpoint.
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1. Affect in Ancient Africa: Historical Linguistics and the Challenge of 'Emotion Talk', Karthryn M. de Luna - 2. From Body to Emotion in Wolof: a Phraseology Process, Olivier Bondéelle - 3. Structural Correlates of 'liver' Expressions in Dogon Emotional Vocabulary, Laura McPherson and Kirill Prokhorov - 4. Emotions, Colours and Qualities: an Overview of Hausa Ideophones, Sergio Baldi - 5. The Syntax and Semantics of Igbo Verbs of Emotion, Maduabuchi Agbo - 6. Nigerian Pidgin and the Construction of Emotions in Clinical Encounters, Akin Odebunmi - 7. Fear as a Factor in Including Outsiders among the Tupuri (Chad), Elisa Fiorio - 8. Emotion Language in Akan: the Case of Anger, Gladys Nyarko Ansah - 9. Love Encoding in Hausa: Sources and Conceptual Models, Gian Claudio Batic.