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Emotion Talk Across Corpora

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  • © 2008

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  1. Monika Bednarek
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Analyzing Language and Emotion

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 1-26

  3. Emotion Profiling

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 27-64

  4. A Local Grammar of Affect

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 65-99

  5. Patterns of Affect Across Corpora

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 100-141

  6. Mapping and Analyzing Affect

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 142-182

  7. Enacting Affect: Pragmatic Analysis

    • Monika Bednarek
    Pages 183-223

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 224-242
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About this book

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.

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"...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

About the author

Monika 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).

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