Overview

This volume sheds light on the complex nature of affect expression by investigating its various linguistic, cultural and social manifestations. Divided into two parts, it first explores affective phenomena from cognitive, comparative and cross-linguistic perspective, offering novel insights into the conceptualisations and expression of affect, i.e., emotions, moods, feelings in languages such as Tok Pisin, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, or Romanian. In the second part of the book, the authors venture into social contexts where affect and language intersect with everyday interactions (child socialisation, ironical exchanges), education (mother tongue, boredom in classroom), and translation. The papers present understanding of the complex ways affect is expressed in different languages and cultures and bring these differences to life. The papers are not just theories; they are examples that show how affect is truly felt, understood, and communicated.

Full Product Details

9789004747043

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Full Professor Dr habil. at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland). Her research focuses on cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language contrasts, corpus linguistics and their applications in translation and media studies, and corpus-based online discourse analysis. She is invited to read papers at international conferences and to lecture and conduct seminars at universities and she publishes extensively, supervises dissertations and is also active organizing international conferences and workshops. Marcin Trojszczak holds PhD in Linguistics and MA in Philosophy. He works at University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. His research interests include conceptualizations of mental and affective processes, normativity and genericity in language, and technology in translation.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available