Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

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This volume offers cutting-edge research on the structural coding of expressive meaning. The eleven chapters plus introduction convincingly show that emotion finds expression on the syntactic, morphological, and prosodic level. Different theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative to functional and usage-based, support the challenge of discovering the often subtle expressive meaning-form relations in various languages (Romance, Germanic, Japanese). * Ad Foolen, Radboud University * The highly synthesizing contributions in this volume are rich with insight and detail, jointly updating and re-defining the concepts of expressivity and emotion that emerged in linguistic literature twenty years ago. This impressive volume makes valuable new advances- and presents the state of the art for anyone who wants to know how linguists understand emotive language today, and what tools are available for analysis in this area. * Anastasia Giannakidou, Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago * Expressivity has been one of the hot topics in linguistics recently and this volume demonstrates the breadth and relevance of this topic by showcasing insightful and original case studies from a variety of theoretical backgrounds. The volume will be a valuable resource on the state of the art and will provide starting points for new investigations into expressivity. * Daniel Gutzmann, University of Cologne *