Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology) - Hardcover

Ponsonnet, Maïa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138601357 ISBN 13: 9781138601352

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This volume is the first to explore the influence of the formal properties of language on the expression of emotions, as well as the first description of the linguistic encoding of emotions in a creole language. The cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and other social scientists.

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Maïa Ponsonnet is an anthropological linguist currently based at The University of Western Australia in Perth. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University (Canberra, 2014), with additional background in Philosophy (PhD Université Paris-8, 2005). She has extensive experience working with speakers of Indigenous languages in communities of inland Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia. In line with her combined linguistic, philosophical and anthropological interests, Maïa Ponsonnet's research concerns the role of language in humans' lives, and in particular how language may channel or modify people's experience and management of emotions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138601357
• ISBN 13: 9781138601352
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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