Beschreibung:
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.
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.
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