The Routledge handbook of language and emotion

459 Pages·2020·12.542 MB·English

by  Sonya E Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, James M Wilce (eds.)

The Routledge Handbook of
Language and Emotion
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and
methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences
of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters and vice versa. Including chapters representing
linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication studies,
education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book:
• examines and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in five key areas:
language socialization; culture, translation, and transformation; poetry, pragmatics, and
power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities;
• situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical
and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated
Western thought relating to emotions and their management;
• provides insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa,
especially in the context of culture.
With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields,
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and
researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and
emotion into their work.
Sonya E. Pritzker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University
of Alabama. She is a linguistic and medical anthropologist whose research investigates how
both health and healthcare are mediated by interaction in multiple settings. She has published
extensively on translation in Chinese medicine, psychology in China, and the communication
of emotion in intimate relationships.
Janina Fenigsen is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching
interests include race; language policy; language contact and creolization; linguistic heritage;
health promotion; neoliberalism; and semiotics of emotion. She is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern Arizona.
James M. Wilce is Emeritus Professor at Northern Arizona University. His research merges
linguistic, psychological, and medical anthropology, and has included studies on lament in
Bangladesh and Finland, and emotion pedagogies in Arizona. He is the author of many scholarly
publications addressing language and emotion.
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The Routledge Handbook
of Language and Emotion
Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, and
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Contents
Contributors viii
Editors’ Introduction xii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Perspectives on emotion, emotionality, and language: Past and present 1
Janina Fenigsen, James M. Wilce, and Rebekah Wilce
PART I
Emotion and language socialization 11
2 Insights from infancy: The felt basis of language in interpersonal engagement 13
Maya Gratier
3 Emotion and affect in language socialization 28
Matthew Burdelski
4 Unfolding emotions: The language and socialization of anger in Madagascar 49
Gabriel Scheidecker
PART II
Language and emotion: Culture, translation, and transformation 73
5 Affect in the circulation of cultural forms 75
Greg Urban and Jessica N.K. Urban
6 Emotion, language, and cultural transformation 100
Joseph Sung-Yul Park
7 Emotion in and through language contraction 114
Kathryn E. Graber
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8 Cultural variations in language and emotion 124
Debra J. Occhi
9 The semantics of emotion: From theory to empirical analysis 132
Zhengdao Ye
PART III
Language and emotion: Poetry, pragmatics and power 155
10 Language and emotion: Paralinguistic and performative dimensions 157
William O. Beeman
11 Poetry and emotion: Poetic communion, ordeals of language, intimate
grammars, and complex remindings 182
Anthony K. Webster
12 Language, music, and emotion in lament poetry: The embodiment and
performativity of emotions in Karelian laments 203
Viliina Silvonen and Eila Stepanova
13 Expressing emotion through forms of address in Colombian Spanish 223
Giovani López López
14 Emoji and the expression of emotion in writing 242
Marcel Danesi
15 Emotion and metalanguage 258
Janet McIntosh
16 Autism and emotion: Situating autistic emotionality in interactional,
sociocultural, and political contexts 273
Laura Sterponi and Rachel S.Y. Chen
17 Feeling the Voice Affect, Media, and Communication 285
Laura Kunreuther and Owen Kohl
PART IV
Language, emotion, and the affective body-self 305
18 Language, emotion, and the body: Combining linguistic and biological
approaches to interactions between romantic partners 307
Sonya E. Pritzker, Joshua R. Pederson, and Jason A. DeCaro
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19 Emotion in the language of prayer 325
Anna I. Corwin and Taylor W. Brown
20 Emotion and gender in personal narratives 344
Robyn Fivush and Azriel Grysman
PART V
Emotion communities 361
21 Laughter, lament, and stigma: The making and breaking of sign language
communities 363
Leila Monaghan
22 Becoming blessed: Happiness and faith in Pentecostal discourse 381
Karen J. Brison
23 Learning healing relationality: Dynamics of religion and emotion 395
Terhi Utriainen
24 Emotions and the evolution of human auditory language: An application
of evolutionary and neuro sociology 411
Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski
Index 433
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Contributors
William O. Beeman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. A linguistic
anthropologist, he is the author of Language Status and Power in Iran and numerous scholarly
papers on language, cognition, and emotion.
Taylor W. Brown is a recent graduate of Saint Mary's College of California with a bachelor's
degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology. She is currently working as an
archaeologist at the Montpelier Foundation in Virginia and is passionate about using a holistic,
four fields approach when interpreting the past and the present.
Karen J. Brison is Professor of anthropology at Union College. She has studied language, gen-
der, religion, childhood, education, and gender in Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Her most recent
research concerns the place of Pacific islanders in transnational Pentecostal networks.
Matthew Burdelski is Professor of Applied Japanese Linguistics at Osaka University. Focusing
on Japanese and US classrooms and communities, his research utilizes language socialization and
conversation analysis to investigate adult–child and children’s multimodal interactions in teach-
ing, learning, acquiring, and using Japanese as a first, second, and heritage language.
Rachel S.Y. Chen is a joint doctoral student in Special Education at the University of California
at Berkeley and San Francisco State University. She studies the embodied and interactional
practices of individuals on the autism spectrum as they navigate their material and social world.
Specifically, she investigates how known-autistic phenomena (such as stimming, routines, dis-
plays of affect) are organized in everyday circumstances.
Anna I. Corwin is Assistant Professor in the anthropology department at Saint Mary’s College
of California. She is a linguistic and medical anthropologist and has published a range of
articles examining the intersections between aging, embodiment, prayer, well-being, and
social interaction. Anna’s current research project, funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities, examines how everyday linguistic and religious practices contribute to
well-being.
Marcel Danesi is Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Semiotics at the University of
Toronto. He is Director of the Program in Semiotics at Victoria College of the same university.
He has published extensively in both linguistics and semiotics. His two most recent books are:
Understanding Media Semiotics (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Memes and the Future of Popular Culture.
(Brill, 2019). He is currently editor-in-chief of Semiotica.
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Contributors
Jason A. DeCaro is the Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore Endowed Professor in
the Social Sciences and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. He employs
ethnography in conjunction with biomarkers linked to stress, arousal, and emotion regulation
to examine how cultural and social context "get under the skin" to shape physical, mental, and
behavioral health and human development across the lifespan.
Janina Fenigsen is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching
interests include race, language policy, language contact and Creolization, linguistic heritage,
health promotion, neoliberalism, and semiotics of emotion. She is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern Arizona.
Robyn Fivush is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Director of the
Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Her work focuses on the social construction
of autobiographical memory, personal narratives, and relations to trauma and healing.
Azriel Grysman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dickinson College. His work inves-
tigates the role of gender in autobiographical memory, the social context of remembering in
collaborative settings, and the role of narrative methods in psychological memory research.
Kathryn E. Graber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana
University Bloomington. Her most recent publication is the book Storytelling as Narrative Practice:
Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell, co-edited with Elizabeth A. Falconi.
Maya Gratier is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Paris Nanterre.
She studies infant sociality and communication with an ecological and embodied approach to
human cognition.
Owen Kohl explores the relationship between media-making and the reimagining of home
after socialist Yugoslavia’s dismemberment. Before completing a PhD in anthropology at the
University of Chicago, Kohl began preliminary field research on global manifestations of hip-
hop social practices in France, Senegal, Croatia, Russia, and Mongolia. Since 2013, he has taught
at different universities in Chicago.
Laura Kunreuther is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her research
focuses on voice-based media, sound, participatory democracy, human rights, and field inter-
pretation. Her first book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu (Berkeley
2014), traces the relation between public speech and personal interiority during a moment
of democraticization in Nepal through a focus on two formations of voice (political and
intimate).
Giovani López López completed his PhD in Romance Languages: Spanish at the University
of Alabama in 2019. He currently teaches Spanish and German at Fort Hays State University
in Kansas. Giovani’s research on forms of address includes studies in different settings such as
the use of these forms in historical texts, online platforms, the Spanish as a foreign language
classroom, and the home setting.
Alexandra Maryanski is Professor of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside.
She is trained in cultural and biological anthropology, sociology, and social network analysis.
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