Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100216

Funded Activity Summary

Emotions, language and culture in Arnhem Land (Katherine region). This project aims to increase our understanding of emotional language and cultural practices about emotions among Indigenous Australian groups. Emotion is a fundamental human experience, yet different languages provide very different ways of talking about it. What are the consequences of this? Are these differences culturally constrained? Might differences in the grammar of a language influence the way its speakers express emotions, or even the way they experience emotions? This project seeks to describe and compare the way emotions are expressed in five Aboriginal languages of Arnhem Land. Four of these languages are endangered and the project will also provide the urgent documentation needed to preserve them.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $345,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies | Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Communication Across Languages and Culture

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics

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