The Language of Emotions: The Case of Dalabon (Australia) by Maïa Ponsonnet
J Heath - Anthropological Linguistics, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu
J Heath
Anthropological Linguistics, 2016•muse.jhu.eduIn the 1980s, Catherine Lutz and (for Australian Aboriginals) Fred Myers put the
ethnography of emotion on the anthropological front burner, while cognitive linguists like
George Lakoff began probing deeply into English emotion semantics. In thirty years worth of
subsequent scholarship, the key issues (above all, universal bodily experience versus
culture, and metaphor versus metonym) have been widely debated.
ethnography of emotion on the anthropological front burner, while cognitive linguists like
George Lakoff began probing deeply into English emotion semantics. In thirty years worth of
subsequent scholarship, the key issues (above all, universal bodily experience versus
culture, and metaphor versus metonym) have been widely debated.
In the 1980s, Catherine Lutz and (for Australian Aboriginals) Fred Myers put the ethnography of emotion on the anthropological front burner, while cognitive linguists like George Lakoff began probing deeply into English emotion semantics. In thirty years worth of subsequent scholarship, the key issues (above all, universal bodily experience versus culture, and metaphor versus metonym) have been widely debated.
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