The Language of Emotions

Name: The Language of Emotions | The case of Dalabon (Australia)
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The case of Dalabon (Australia)

Maïa Ponsonnet(Author)

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Published on 3. December 2014

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The Language of Emotions
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of tables
List of figures
Abbreviations and conventions
Recordings
Orthographic conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction
1. Defining emotions
1.1 Universalists and relativists
1.2 Working definition
1.2.1 Emotions are private states
1.2.2 Other criteria and properties
1.2.3 Summary
1.3 The concept of emotion in Dalabon
2. Linguistic approaches to emotions
2.1 Expression vs description
2.2 Focus on meaning vs focus on metaphor
2.2.1 Describing meanings in Dalabon
2.2.2 Reflecting on tropes
3. Structure of the work
Chapter 2. Ethnographic context
1. Who are the Dalabon?
2. Pre-colonial life style, environment and connection to the land
2.1 Social organization
2.1.1 Kinship
2.1.2 Marriages
2.1.3 Subsections
2.2 Cosmogonies
2.3 Secrecy and gender division
3. Colonization and recent history
3.1 Dalabon life style
3.2 The Dalabon and their historical background
4. Emotions in the Dalabon context
4.1 The status of emotions
4.2 Managing painful emotions
Chapter 3. Linguistic context
1. Linguistic context
1.1 The local language ecology
1.1.1 Dalabon
1.1.2 Kriol
1.2 Gathering data on emotions in Dalabon
1.2.1 Vantage point
1.2.2 Caveats and methodological solutions
1.2.3 Limitations of the data
1.2.4 Corpora and their indexation
1.2.5 Glosses
2. The Dalabon language
2.1 Profile and previous works
2.2 The verb template
2.3 Noun incorporation
2.3.1 Syntactic noun incorporation and lexicalized compounds
2.3.2 Lexicalization and metaphors
2.4 Body-part nouns and nominal subclasses
2.4.1 The animate-part nominal subclass
2.4.2 Morphosyntactic behavior of animate-part nouns
Chapter 4. Expressive features
1. Methodology
1.1 Data
1.2 Categories
1.3 Comparison with Kriol
2. Other emotional devices
2.1 Apprehensive mood
2.2 Reported speech
2.3 Demonstratives
3. Diminutives
3.1 -Wurd with nouns referring to animates
3.1.1 Categories not defined by age
3.1.2 Categories defined by age
3.1.3 Distribution
3.1.4 Other animates
3.2 -Wurd on nouns referring to inanimates
3.2.1 Emotional connotations
3.2.2 Softening pragmatic functions
3.3 Verbs
3.3.1 Scalar senses
3.3.2 Emotional senses
3.3.3 Softening functions
3.4 -Wurd on other word classes
3.5 Yaw-
3.6 Conclusions
4. Emotive interjections
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Emotive interjections in Dalabon
4.3 Core emotive interjections
4.3.1 Weh-no
4.3.2 Bordo(h)
4.3.3 Woywoy
4.3.4 Comparison
4.3.5 Note on bobala
4.3.6 Conclusions
5. Emotional prosodic features
5.1 Variations in pitch
5.1.1 Emotional prosodic contour
5.1.2 Contexts
5.1.3 High pitch
5.1.4 Other contours
5.2 Phonation and intensity
5.2.1 Creakiness
5.2.2 Whispering
5.2.3 Lower intensity
5.3 The 'sad register'
5.4 Conclusions
6. Expressives: Final remarks
Chapter 5. The lexicon: Structure
1. Extent and structure of the lexicon
1.1 Word classes and their numbers
1.2 Compounds and the role of body-parts
2. Syntax
2.1 Argument marking in Dalabon
2.2 One-place predicates
2.3 Two-place predicates
2.3.1 Animate stimulus
2.3.2 Causative verbs
2.3.3 Isolated patterns
2.4 Valence-changing operations
2.4.1 Benefactives
2.4.2 Lexicalized benefactive: marnu-djare 'like, love'
2.4.3 Reciprocals
2.4.4 Reflexives
2.5 Alternative constructions
2.5.1 Clausal adjuncts
2.5.2 Case marking
2.5.3 Possessive markers
3. Aspect
4. Conclusion
Chapter 6. The lexicon: Semantics
1. Frequent lexemes
2. Emotions and their patterns of lexicalization
2.1 Interpersonal relationships
2.1.1 Other-oriented and self-oriented emotions
2.1.2 Conflict-related emotions
2.1.3 Compassion
2.1.4 Shame
2.1.5 Mourning-related emotions
2.2 The autonomous self
2.3 Jealousy, love and sexual desire
2.3.1 Love and jealousy
2.3.2 Love, sexuality and gender
2.4 Fear and surprise
3. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Metaphors: Introduction
1. Introduction: The nature of emotional compounds
2. Metaphors: Definitions and debates
2.1 The cognitivists' and the anthropologists' views on metaphors
2.2 Historical depth
3. The notion of trope in this work
3.1 Dalabon lexical tropes: Imposed but active
3.2 Focus on synchrony and reinterpretation
3.3 Literal vs figurative meaning
4. The power of tropes
4.1 Tropes as conceptual suggestions
4.2 Tropes as motivations of lexical form and semantic change
4.3 Conceptual tropes resulting from linguistic forms
5. Methodological issues
5.1 Metaphors and metonymies
5.2 The typology of metaphors
5.3 Terminology
6. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Metaphors: Around the body
1. KANGU 'belly'
1.1 Senses
1.2 Remarks on the semantics of KANGU compounds
1.3 Bridging somatic metonymies: physical state of the belly for emotional state
1.4 Other metonymies: Belly for seat of emotions
1.4.1 Belly for seat of physical responses to emotions
1.4.2 Belly for seat of emotions
1.4.3 Belly for experiencer of emotions
1.4.4 Relevance to speakers
1.5 State of the belly metaphors
1.5.1 Resistance metaphors: Blockage, softness, fluidity, movement
1.5.2 Destruction metaphors
1.5.3 Accessibility metaphor
1.5.4 Relevance to speakers
1.6 Other 'free' metaphors with kangu-no 'belly'
1.7 Discussion
2. Around the heart: NGURLK and NGERH
2.1 Meanings of the body-part components
2.2 NGURLK compounds
2.2.1 Heart for affection metonymy
2.2.2 Height and verticality metaphors
2.2.3 Heart for seat of emotions metonymy
2.3 NGERH compounds
2.3.1 Somatic metonymy: Affected heart rate for emotional states
2.3.2 Free metaphors with ngerh-no
2.4 Salience of conceptual metaphors
3. YOLH 'pep, feelings'
3.1 Sense and etymology
3.2 YOLH compounds
3.3 Compositional interpretations
3.4 Metaphors involving feelings
3.4.1 Existence metaphor and its extensions
3.4.2 Blockage and mobility metaphors
3.4.3 Change metaphor
3.4.4 Resistance metaphor and KANGU analogues
3.5 Discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Other emotion metaphors
1. YIRRU 'conflict, anger'
1.1 YIRRU and KANGU-YIRRU compounds
1.1.1 YIRRU compounds
1.1.2 KANGU-YIRRU compounds
1.2 Generic metaphors
1.2.1 Anger is like a part of the person
1.2.2 Anger is like an entity independent of the person
1.3 Specific metaphors
1.3.1 Appearing entity
1.3.2 Living entity
1.3.3 Anger, pain, diseases and poison
1.3.4 Anger is a fluid
1.4 Metaphors specific to KANGU-YIRRU compounds
1.5 Other anger metaphors
1.6 Discussion
1.6.1 Representations of anger in Dalabon
1.6.2 Cross-linguistic comparison
2. RE 'laughter, smile' and RU 'tears'
3. BRUK 'dry'
3.1 Dryness of attribute for emotional composure
3.2 Emotions are fluids
4. Free metaphor: The body as a container
5. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Body-parts and emotional behaviors
1. Emotional behavior sets
1.1 Yirru 'conflict', 'anger'
1.2 Yer(mu) 'avoid interactions for fear of others'
1.3 Dje-bruH(mu) 'be sulky, be sad/put on a dark face'
1.3.1 Sense and etymology
1.3.2 Body-part alternations
1.4 BRUK 'dry/QUIET'
1.5 Behavioral verbs
1.5.1 Redji 'smile, laugh'
1.5.2 Run 'cry'
1.6 Conclusions on emotional behavior sets
2. Body-parts with emotional connotations
2.1 Effect for cause metonymies
2.2 Part for whole metonymies
2.3 Analogy within metaphorical sets
2.4 Compositional interpretation of KANGU compounds
3. Analogy, compositionality, body-parts and emotions
4. Emotional behavior sets and the perception of emotions
5. Conclusions
Chapter 11. Conclusion
1. Expressive features
2. The lexicon
3. Metonymy and metaphor
4. Body-parts and emotional behaviors
5. Conceptual motivations and formal motivations
6. Dalabon representations of emotions
References
Appendix 1. Table of Dalabon: Emotion verbs and adjectives
Appendix 2. Dalabon emotion lexicon
Emotion Finder-List
Appendix 3. Predicate components
General index
Index of languages and groups

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