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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. BednarekPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.475kg ISBN: 9780230551466ISBN 10: 0230551467 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 17 June 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword: 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 AnalysisReviews...working at the interface of two complementary perspectives on language, corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistic theory, and developing new insights into the language of evaluation at the edge of knowledge in both these interacting domains, ... Bednarek rises effectively to this challenge, paving the way for a generation of transdisciplinary rapprochement across these two fields. - Professor James R. Martin, University of Sydney, Australia ...the differentiation between emotion talk and emotional talk, as well as being brilliantly clarified, will, quite possibly, be new, and indeed, fascinating, to many readers. - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Monika Bednarek's Emotion Talk Across Corpora is interesting in many respects; first and foremost, for the corpus-based insight it provides in the lexicalization of emotions in different genres of British English. The book shows extensive knowledge of the literature on previous emotion research - even in fields other than linguistics - and a remarkable ability to schematize a complex theoretical panorama, where the borders between the various contributions are not always clear-cut. - Gloria Cappelli, University of Pisa, Italy '...working at the interface of two complementary perspectives on language, corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistic theory, and developing new insights into the language of evaluation at the edge of knowledge in both these interacting domains,...Bednarek rises effectively to this challenge, paving the way for a generation of transdisciplinary rapprochement across these two fields.' - Professor James R. Martin, University of Sydney Author InformationMonika Bednarek is Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She has published in the Journal of Pragmatics and Text and Talk. Among her most recent publications are Evaluation in Media Discourse, and a special issue of Functions of Language (as guest editor). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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