Language and the Politics of Emotion

Klappentext Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy! psychological and sociological studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: emotion, discourse, and the politics of everyday life Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz; 2. Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry Lila Abu-Lughod; 3. Moral discourse and the rhetoric of emotions Geoffrey M. White; 4. Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the rhetoric of emotional control in American discourse Catherine A. Lutz; 5. Topographies of the self: praise and emotion in Hindu India Arjun Appadurai; 6. Shared and solidarity sentiments: the discourse of friendship, play, and anger in Bhatgaon Donald Brenneis; 7. Registering affect: heteroglossia in the linguistic expression of emotion Judith T. Irvine; 8. Language in the discourse of the emotions Daniel V. Rosenberg; 9. Untouchability and the fear of death in a Tamil song Margaret Trawick; Index.

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• Authors: Catherine A. Lutz
• Assisted by: Lila Abu-Lughod (Editor), Abu-Lughod Lila (Editor), Catherine A. Lutz (Editor), Lutz Catherine A. (Editor), Keith Oatley (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521388689
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38868-9
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an; Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology