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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 14-11-2014
DOI: 10.1075/CLSCC.4
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 19-04-2018
DOI: 10.1075/SL.00002.PON
Abstract: This article presents a preliminary typology of emotional connotations in evaluative morphology, starting with diminutives and augmentatives. I inventory the emotional meanings and connotations found in a s le of nineteen languages for diminutives, and nine languages plus a few additional regional studies for augmentatives. Given the small size of the s les, this typology can only remain preliminary, but it does highlight a number of points. Across languages and continents, diminutives can express positive emotions such as compassion, love and admiration, as well as negative emotions such as contempt. The emotional connotations of augmentatives are more limited, but display a blend of positive and negative emotions including contempt and repulsion, admiration and respect, endearment and compassion. Diminutives and augmentatives do not contrast sharply with respect to emotional valence (positive or negative), but while diminutives are anchored in intimacy, the emotions conveyed by augmentatives more often relate to broader social contexts.
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 05-04-2018
DOI: 10.22459/SKC.04.2018
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 31-12-2020
DOI: 10.1075/PC.00010.INT
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-10-2021
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 22-08-2014
Abstract: This article examines the status and functions of body-part words with respect to linguistic descriptions of emotions in Dalabon (Northern Australia). As in many languages in the world, words denoting invisible (internal) body-parts occur in figurative expressions. These expressions instantiate metaphors and metonymies inspired by non-observable somatic responses to emotions. In addition to this figurative pattern of usage, many more words for visible body-parts occur in expressions where they serve to produce more detailed descriptions of emotional behaviors — specifying which body-part is involved in a given emotional manifestation. The relatively widespread use of body-part words in such descriptions of emotions fosters semantic extensions, where some body-part nouns gain emotional connotations. The article analyzes these descriptive functions of body-part nouns in Dalabon, and examines how they reinforce semantic associations between body-parts and emotions.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2017
Abstract: This article explores the correlations between linguistic figurative features and their corresponding conceptual representations, by considering their respective continuities and discontinuities in language shift. I compare the figurative encoding of emotions in Kriol, a creole of northern Australia, with those of Dalabon, one of the languages replaced by this creole, with a particular focus on evidence from metaphorical gestures. The conclusions are three-fold. Firstly, the prominent figurative association between the body and the emotions observed in Dalabon is, overall, not matched in Kriol. Secondly, although this association is not prominent in Kriol, it is not entirely absent. It surfaces where speakers are less constrained by linguistic conventions: in non-conventionalized tropes, and gestures in particular. Indeed, some of the verbal emotion metaphors that have disappeared with language shift are preserved as gestural metaphors. Thus, Kriol speakers endorse the conceptual association between emotions and the body, in spite of the lower linguistic incidence of this association. The third conclusion is that therefore, in language shift, conceptual figurative representations and linguistic figurative representations are independent of each other. The former can persist when the latter largely disappear. Conversely, the fact that speakers endorse a certain type of conceptual representation does not entail that they will use corresponding linguistic forms in the new language. The transfer of linguistic figurative representations seems to depend, instead, upon purely linguistic parameters.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-11-2010
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 07-05-2018
Abstract: This article analyzes some of the lexical semantic features of Barunga Kriol, an Australian creole language (Northern Territory, Australia), in comparison with Dalabon, one of the Australian Aboriginal languages replaced by Barunga Kriol. Focusing on the semantic domain of emotions, this study offers insights into how creole languages select and organize semantic meanings, and to what extent this results in lexical loss or retention. I spell out the exact nature of the lexical resemblances between the two languages, and highlight major differences as well. The conclusions of the study are two-fold. Firstly, I show that the Barunga Kriol emotion lexicon shares a great many properties with the Dalabon emotion lexicon. As a result, speakers in Barunga Kriol and Dalabon respectively are often able to package meaning in very similar ways: the two languages offer comparable means of describing events in the world. From that point of view, language shift can be considered to have a lesser impact. Secondly, I show that the lexical resemblances between Barunga Kriol and Dalabon are not limited to simple cases where the lexemes in each language share the same forms and/or meanings. Instead, lexical resemblances relate to a number of other properties in semantics and combinatorics, and I devise a preliminary typology of these lexical resemblances. Beyond the comparison between Barunga Kriol and Dalabon, this typology may tentatively serve as a grid to evaluate lexical resemblances between languages more generally.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 19-04-2018
DOI: 10.1075/SL.00009.PON
Abstract: This article describes the semantic values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol – an English-based creole of northern Australia –, with a focus on its expressive functions. Barunga Kriol reduplication has two types of functions. Its most frequent meaning is aspectual atelicity. In addition, it has a number of expressive meanings and connotations: hypocoristic usages descriptions of children’s games and imitations and a softening role in imperatives and reprimands. Contrary to the aspectual value of reduplication which is iconically motivated, expressive values are motivated by the pragmatic association of reduplication with children. Expressive uses of reduplication in Borunge are rarer and less regular than the grammaticalized aspectual uses, which are very frequent. Aspectual reduplication is optional most of the time, so that explaining its actual distribution in discourse is a complicated matter. This article shows that this distribution can often be explained in the view of the expressive values of reduplication (some of them also conveyed by affixal evaluative morphology in the Australian languages that have been replaced by this creole). Thus, taking into account the expressive dimension of reduplication contributes significantly to the linguistic analysis of the grammaticalized aspectual function of reduplication.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-06-2022
DOI: 10.1111/ETHO.12338
Abstract: This article describes how particular emotions map figuratively onto body parts in Australian Indigenous languages. While most languages use expressions involving body parts to talk about emotions—as in “broken‐hearted,” for instance—Australian Indigenous languages do it to a remarkable extent. After identifying the figurative tropes—metaphors and metonymies—that recur most frequently in such expressions across the continent, the article discusses specific body‐part associations and figurative patterns for several salient emotional categories. This includes generic emotions (feel good/bad) “empathetic” emotions (affection and derived emotions) anger and sulkiness social attitudes around agreeableness and compliance shame love, desire, and jealousy and fear and surprise. Far from being randomly distributed, the figurative properties of each category exhibit regular patterns. Some of these patterns reflect somatic and behavioral responses to emotions or cognitive properties of emotions, while others remain unexplained. [Australian languages, emotions, figurative language, embodiment] Résumé Cet article décrit et analyse les correspondances entre catégories émotionnelles et parties du corps dans les expressions figuratives des langues aborigènes australiennes. La majorité des langues du monde utilisent des collocations incluant des parties du corps pour décrire des émotions—comme dans l'expression « cœur brisé » par exemple— mais celles‐ci sont particulièrement nombreuses dans les langues australiennes. Après avoir identifié les tropes—métaphores and métonymies—qui reviennent le plus souvent dans ces expressions à travers le continent, l'article analyse les associations spécifiques entre certaines parties du corps, certains tropes, et certaines catégories émotionnelles. Ces catégories incluent les émotions génériques (se sentir bien/mal) les émotions dites « empathétiques » (affection et émotions dérivées) la colère et la bouderie les tempéramments relationnels comme l'amabilité ou un caractère conciliant la honte l'amour, le désir et la jalousie ainsi que la peur et la surprise. Chacune de ces émotions présente des associations préferentielles avec certaines parties du corps, et des propriétés figuratives récurrentes. Certaines de ces préférences et récurrences renvoient à des réactions somatiques ou comportementales aux émotions en question, d'autres à leurs dimensions cognitives et d'autres encore restent inexpliquées.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2019
Location: Australia
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