essay
Registering affect: heteroglossia in the linguistic expression of emotion
Language and the politics of emotion • Cambridge [england] • Published In 1990 • Pages: 126-161
By: Irvine, Judith T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on a statement by Sapir (1927, 1930) that emotional expression is pervasive in linguistic structure and the communication of personality and emotional states is culturally organized in a speech community, Irvine takes up Sapir's theme of conventionality of affective performance and follows it in relation to the linguistic concept of 'register' -- a coherent complex of linguistic features linked to a situation of use (p. 127), The study of register, says the author, '…is a convenient way to look at the verbal aspects of affective display, because it suggests a set of complementary representations of feelings that are conventionalized among a community of speakers' (p. 127). In much of this study the discussion focuses on styles of speaking in a rural Wolof community -- styles that relate to the representation of affectivity on one hand and social rank on the other.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Language
- Grammar
- Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Conversation
- Status, role, and prestige
- Castes
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1971,1975,1977,1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1971, 1975,1977, 1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- prefecture of Tivaouane, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- Judith T. Irvine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-161)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90001374
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)