Encoding emotions in African languages

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This edited book deals with the linguistic encoding of emotions in the following African the Bantu-Botatwe group, Wolof, Dogon, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian English Pidgin, Tupuri, and Akan. The contributions included in the volume present a variety of approaches and research perspectives ranging from historical linguistics and ethnoliniguistics to cultural-cognitive and discourse analysis. Each chapter develops a different topic discussing it in detail and from (what we believe to be) an original standpoint. 1. Affect in Ancient Historical Linguistics and the Challenge of 'Emotion Talk’, Karthryn M. de Luna - 2. From Body to Emotion in a Phraseology Process, Olivier Bondéelle - 3. Structural Correlates of ‘liver’ Expressions in Dogon Emotional Vocabulary, Laura McPherson and Kirill Prokhorov - 4. Emotions, Colours and an Overview of Hausa Ideophones, Sergio Baldi - 5. The Syntax and Semantics of Igbo Verbs of Emotion, Maduabuchi Agbo - 6. Nigerian Pidgin and the Construction of Emotions in Clinical Encounters, Akin Odebunmi - 7. Fear as a Factor in Including Outsiders among the Tupuri (Chad), Elisa Fiorio - 8. Emotion Language in the Case of Anger, Gladys Nyarko Ansah - 9. Love Encoding in Sources and Conceptual Models, Gian Claudio Batic.