Research Catalog

Title

Encoding emotions in African languages / edited by Gian Claudio Batic ; with contributions by Maduabuchi Agbo, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, Sergio Baldi, Gian Claudio Batic, Olivier Bondéelle, Kathryn M. De Luna, Elisa Fiorio, Laura McPherson, Akin Odebunmi, Kirill Prokhorov.

Publication

Muenchen : LINCOM Europa, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Batic, Gian Claudio

Description

ii, 151 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

LINCOM studies in African linguistics ; 84

Uniform Title

LINCOM studies in African linguistics 84.

Subject

• African languages > Psychological aspects
• Language and emotions > Africa
• Psycholinguistics > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Affect in ancient Africa : historical linguistics and the challenge of "emotion talk" / Kathryn M. de Luna -- From body to emotion in Wolof : a phraseology process / Olivier Bondéelle -- Structural correlates of "liver" expressions in Dogon emotional vocabulary / Laura McPherson, Kirill Prokhorov -- Emotions, colours and qualities : an overview of Hausa ideophones / Sergio Baldi -- The syntax and semantics of Igbo verbs of emotion / Maduabuchi Agbo -- Nigerian Pidgin and the construction of emotions in clinical encounters / Akin Odebunmi -- Fear as a factor in including outsiders among the Tupuri (Chad) / Elisa Fiorio -- Emotion language in Akan : the case of anger / Gladys Nyarko Ansah -- Love encoding in Hausa : sources and conceptual models / Gian Claudio Batic.

ISBN

• 9783862880492 (pbk.)
• 3862880494 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 768810865
• SCSB-10083549

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library