Emotion Talk Across Corpora

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-137-52331-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical evidence and corpus-linguistic methods, but also qualitative text analyses, the author examines how expressions that describe emotions are employed in a large corpus of conversational, newspaper, fictional and academic English.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bednarek, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: J.R.Martin 1. Analyzing Language and Emotion 2. Emotional Profiling 3. A Local Grammar of Affect 4. Patterns of Affect Across Corpora 5. Mapping and Analyzing Effect 6. Enacting Affect: Pragmatic Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Monika Bednarek is Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She has published in the and . Among her most recent publications are , and a special issue of (as guest editor).