The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion

This handbook offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers across the disciplines.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which incorporates disciplines such as linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication studies, education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book:

• explores and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in the five key areas of language socialisation; culture, translation and transformation; poetry, pragmatics and power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities;











• situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated Western thought relating to emotions and their management;











• provides a unique insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa, especially in the context of culture.

With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and emotion into their work.

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