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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.Defining emotions -- 1.1.Universalists and relativists -- 1.2.Working definition -- 1.2.1.Emotions are private states -- 1.2.2.Other criteria and properties -- 1.2.3.Summary -- 1.3.The concept of emotion in Dalabon -- 2.Linguistic approaches t...

Contents note continued: 1.Linguistic context -- 1.1.The local language ecology -- 1.1.1.Dalabon -- 1.1.2.Kriol -- 1.2.Gathering data on emotions in Dalabon -- 1.2.1.Vantage point -- 1.2.2.Caveats and methodological solutions -- 1.2.3.Limitations of the data -- 1.2.4.Corpora and their indexation --...

Contents note continued: 3.1.2.Categories defined by age -- 3.1.3.Distribution -- 3.1.4.Other animates -- 3.2.Wurd on nouns referring to inanimates -- 3.2.1.Emotional connotations -- 3.2.2.Softening pragmatic functions -- 3.3.Verbs -- 3.3.1.Scalar senses -- 3.3.2.Emotional senses -- 3.3.3.Softening...

Contents note continued: 1.Extent and structure of the lexicon -- 1.1.Word classes and their numbers -- 1.2.Compounds and the role of body-parts -- 2.Syntax -- 2.1.Argument marking in Dalabon -- 2.2.One-place predicates -- 2.3.Two-place predicates -- 2.3.1.Animate stimulus -- 2.3.2.Causative verbs -...

Contents note continued: 2.3.1.Love and jealousy -- 2.3.2.Love, sexuality and gender -- 2.4.Fear and surprise -- 3.Conclusion -- ch. 7 Metaphors: Introduction -- 1.Introduction: The nature of emotional compounds -- 2.Metaphors: Definitions and debates -- 2.1.The cognitivists' and the anthropologists...

Contents note continued: 1.3.Bridging somatic metonymies: Physical state of the belly for emotional state -- 1.4.Other metonymies: Belly for seat of emotions -- 1.4.1.Belly for seat of physical responses to emotions -- 1.4.2.Belly for seat of emotions -- 1.4.3.Belly for experiencer of emotions -- 1....

Contents note continued: 2.4.Salience of conceptual metaphors -- 3.YOLH 'pep, feelings' -- 3.1.Sense and etymology -- 3.2.YOLH compounds -- 3.3.Compositional interpretations -- 3.4.Metaphors involving feelings -- 3.4.1.Existence metaphor and its extensions -- 3.4.2.Blockage and mobility metaphors --...

Contents note continued: 1.6.2.Cross-linguistic comparison -- 2.RE 'laughter, smile' and RU 'tears' -- 3.BRUK 'dry' -- 3.1.Dryness of attribute for emotional composure -- 3.2.Emotions are fluids -- 4.Free metaphor: The body as a container -- 5.Conclusions -- ch. 10 Body-parts and emotional behaviors...

Contents note continued: 4.Emotional behavior sets and the perception of emotions -- 5.Conclusions -- ch. 11 Conclusion -- 1.Expressive features -- 2.The lexicon -- 3.Metonymy and metaphor -- 4.Body-parts and emotional behaviors -- 5.Conceptual motivations and formal motivations -- 6.Dalabon represe...