Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Perspectives on Emotion, Emotionality, and Language: Past and Present / Janina Fenigsen, James M. Wilce, and Rebekah Wilce -- Part I. Emotion and Language Socialization: 2. Insights from Infancy: The Felt Basis of Language in Interpersonal Engagement / Maya Gratier -- 3. Emotion and Affect in Language Socialization / Matthew Burdelski -- 4. Unfolding Emotions: The Language and Socialization of Anger in Madagascar / Gabriel Scheidecker -- Part II. Language and Emotion: Culture, Translation, and Transformation: 5. Affect in the Circulation of Cultural Forms / Greg Urban and Jessica N.K. Urban -- 6. Emotion, Language, and Cultural Transformation / Joseph Sung-Yul Park -- 7. Emotion in and Through Language Contraction / Kathryn E. Graber -- 8. Cultural Variations in Language and Emotion / Debra Occhi -- 9. The Semantics of Emotion: From Theory to Empirical Analysis / Zhengdao Ye -- Part III. Language and Emotion: Poetry, Pragmatics and Power: 10. Language and Emotion: Paralinguistic and Performative Dimensions / William O. Beeman -- 11. Poetry and Emotion: Poetic Communion, Ordeals of Language, Intimate Grammars, and Complex Remindings Anthony K. Webster 6 12. Language, Music, and Emotion in Lament Poetry: The Embodiment and Performativity of Emotions in Karelian Laments / Viliina Silvonen and Eila Stepanova -- 13. Expressing Emotion through Forms of Address in Colombian Spanish / Giovani López López -- 14. Emoji and the Expression of Emotion in Writing / Marcel Danesi -- 15. Emotion and Metalanguage / Janet McIntosh -- 16. Autism and Emotion: Situating Autistic Emotionality in Interactional, Sociocultural, and Political Contexts / Laura Sterponi and Rachel Chen -- 17. Vocal Affects and Mediated Communication / Laura Kunreuther and Owen Kohl -- 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 / Sonya E. Pritzker, Joshua Pederson, and Jason A. DeCaro -- 19. Emotion in the Language of Prayer / Anna I. Corwin and Taylor W. Brown -- 20. Emotion and Gender in Personal Narratives / Robyn Fivush and Azriel Grysman -- Part V. Emotion Communities: 21. Laughter, Joy, Sorrow, Stigma: The Making and Breaking of Sign Language Communities / Leila Monaghan -- 22. Becoming Blessed: Happiness and Faith in Pentecostal Discourse / Karen J. Brison -- 23. Learning Healing Relationality: Dynamics of Religion and Emotion / Terhi Utriainen -- 24. Emotions and the Evolution of Human Auditory Language / Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski -- Index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.