Languages of Sentiment

Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology and Emotional Experience, Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi...1

Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches

Primordialism and Sentiment in Tamil and other Linguistic Cultures, Harold Schiffman...25

Transforming Lament Traditions in Bangla and other Languages: Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies, James M. Wilce, Jr....39

Dignity and Tragedy: How Javanese Women Speak of Emotion, Laine Berman...65

Public and Private Voices: Japanese Style Shifting and the Display of Affective Intensity, Cynthia Dickel Dunn...107

Cognitive Approaches

From Hiren to Happî-Endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith...131

Sounds of the Heart and Mind: Mimetics of Emotional States in Japanese, Debra J. Occhi...151

"Bursting with Grief," "Erupting with Shame": A Conceptual and Grammatical Analysis of Emotion-Tropes in Tagalog, Gary Palmer, Heather Bennett, and Les Stacey...171

The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics: Lexical Semantics and the L2 Acquisition of Love, Fear and Happiness, Grabois, Howard...201

Theory

Language and Emotion Concepts: What Experientialists and Social Constructionists Have in Common, Kövecses, Zoltán and Gary B. Palmer...237