Sonya E. Pritzker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. She is a linguistic and medical anthropologist whose research investigates how both health and healthcare are mediated by interaction in multiple settings. She has published extensively on translation in Chinese medicine, psychology in China, and the communication of emotion in intimate relationships.

Janina Fenigsen is asociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching interests include race, language policy, language contact and creolization, linguistic heritage, health promotion, neoliberalism, and semiotics of emotion. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern Arizona.

James M. Wilce is Emeritus Professor at Northern Arizona University. His research merges linguistic, psychological, and medical anthropology, and has included studies on lament in Bangladesh and Finland, and emotion pedagogies in Arizona. He is the author of many scholarly publications addressing language and emotion.

List of Contributors

Editor's Introduction

1. Perspectives on Emotion, Emotionality, and Language: Past and Present




Part I. Emotion and Language Socialization






2. Insights from Infancy: The Felt Basis of Language in Interpersonal Engagement





3. Emotion and Affect in Language Socialization





4. Unfolding Emotions: The Language and Socialization of Anger in Madagascar




Part II. Language and Emotion: Culture, Translation, and Transformation






5. Affect in the Circulation of Cultural Forms





6. Emotion, Language, and Cultural Transformation





7. Emotion in and Through Language Contraction





8. Cultural Variations in Language and Emotion





9. The Semantics of Emotion: From Theory to Empirical Analysis




Part III. Language and Emotion: Poetry, Pragmatics and Power






10. Language and Emotion: Paralinguistic and Performative Dimensions





11. Poetry and Emotion: Poetic Communion, Ordeals of Language, Intimate Grammars, and Complex Remindings





12. Language, Music, and Emotion in Lament Poetry: The Embodiment and Performativity of Emotions in Karelian Laments





13. Expressing Emotion through Forms of Address in Colombian Spanish





14. Emoji and the Expression of Emotion in Writing





15. Emotion and Metalanguage





16. Autism and Emotion: Situating Autistic Emotionality in Interactional, Sociocultural, and Political Contexts





17. Vocal Affects and Mediated Communication




Part IV. Language, Emotion, and the Affective Body-Self






18. Language, Emotion, and the Body: Combining Linguistic and Biological Approaches to Interactions Between Romantic Partners





19. Emotion in the Language of Prayer





20. Emotion and Gender in Personal Narratives




Part V. Emotion Communities






21. Laughter, Joy, Sorrow, Stigma: The Making and Breaking of Sign Language Communities





22. Becoming Blessed: Happiness and Faith in Pentecostal Discourse





23. Learning Healing Relationality: Dynamics of Religion and Emotion





24. Emotions and the Evolution of Human Auditory Language

Index