The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics

This study has focused on the key aspects of virtual kinship and its impact on society that means the role of virtual kin term that used by the people out from real kinsman to adjustment in society. The paper briefly examines the relationship between the speaker and addressee, and also focused about the notion that compels pronouns to the speaker by certain kin term. For finding the data, participant observation and interview method has also been used. This study likely based on interpretive and analytical way to find the underlying meaning of using the kin term. The major findings of this study are, people make virtual kinship to adjust in certain or given circumstances and put him/herself in certain social categories. It comes through the process of socialization and sometime comes from cognitive sense of ego.

Paper presented at the Language and Social Hierarchy Workshop, Friday 21 – Saturday 22 June 2019, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre & School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, 2019

This paper explores what a focus on mass mediated models of language and social relations can tell us about self and other reference. In particular, I compare person reference in participant constellations involving family, friends, and strangers. My theoretical impetus is drawn from linguistic anthropological work on imitation, mobility, the market, and nation building. In comparing samples of Indonesian television broadcasts spanning the period 1994 to 2009, I ponder how the models of language and social relations among family and friend relate to what we might call metaphorical person reference in models of contact among strangers. I point out that these models are not only examples of sociolinguistic change but are reflexes of different regimes of language.

2024

The definition of friendship is formulated. It is proved that nostalgia for past friendships cannot become the basis for resuming friendship in the present, since if the friendship is over, then this state will remain forever. Revealed how to maintain friendships over decades.

International Journal of Lexicography, 2021

The paper deals with words that denote feelings rather than with feelings as such. It proposes the strictly lexicographic description of some names of 'psyche-induced feel-ings1' [¼ 'feelings2'], such as JOY or AMAZEMENT, in contrast to the names of 'bodyinduced feelings1' [¼ 'sensations'], such as HUNGER and TIREDNESS. This description is based on the semantic prime 'feel1', which itself is explicated through a naïve model of the human psyche. Our theoretical and descriptive framework is the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary: its main principles, the notions of lexical unit (described by a lexical entry) and vocable (described by a lexical superentry), and the three major zones of a lexical entry. A tripartite general schema of the lexicographic definition of a feeling2 name is proposed: the central (¼ generic) component, the Stimulus component, and the Effect component. According to the Stimulus component, four major classes of feel-ing2 names are distinguished: names of reactions to facts, to thoughts, to beliefs, and to wishes. These classes are illustrated with the definitions of several English feeling2 names. A complete lexical entry for the feeling2 name ANGER (N) 1 is given.

Current Anthropology, 2025

Damara pastoralists experience January as !Ūke-ai (collective loneliness). This is also how they experience the time after a drought. To explore this feeling, I draw on the phenomenology of Hermann Schmitz, who suggests that we take emotions out of the "box" of the psyche and theorize them as atmospheres. In this view, every situation is a constellation of human and nonhuman bodies, and atmospheres are the felt space in between that connects and transcends these entities. To feel is to resonate with atmospheres. My theoretical intervention is to develop how the absence of entities that are still present in narratives and memories changes the atmosphere. In both situations-January and after a drought-the temporal absence of things (such as people, animals, and practices) leaves a "hole" that touches people affectively, haunts them, and leads to !Ūke-ai. But what causes these absences? In Namibia, colonial and postcolonial processes have created an economy characterized by land scarcity and circular migration patterns. Recognizing how events of the past create rhythmic absences in the present allows for the intertwining of feelings with historical processes, including marginalization and coloniality. Ultimately, it also allows for the politicization of feelings while acknowledging that people sometimes strive to not be touched and sometimes succeed.

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2017

By discussing a treatment characterized by its difficult ending, the author strives to show the dynamic impact of separation on phenomena that can be seen as 'telepathic'. Led to develop some inalienable attachment to her analyst in the primary transference, the analysand found herself caught up in the contradiction of her visceral dread of dependency, which compelled her to interrupt the work in progress. She then began to work out her analyst's comings and goings and to run into him in public places, as if to be assured of his immovability. This phenomenon arose with high frequency as the effect of some idealization of the maternal object aiming to deny the spatiotemporal gap. The chance that the experience of rejection via indifference may be repeated also entailed the transferential unfurling of a fantasy involving a double, undifferentiation counterbalancing the lived experience of separation. Furthermore, a 'telepathic' dream occurred as confirmation of this twin relationship which illustrates the analysand's refusal to renounce her narcissistic object. Projective identifications, agglutinated ego nuclei along with primitive cross-identifications could, among other concepts, account for such phenomena which are projective in nature yet real all the same. Such mechanisms could have the power to relay thoughts the moment undifferentiated parts of the egoif not unborn parts of the selfwere activated in a potentially symbiotic zone. Marked by a feeling of dispossession, the analyst's countertransference not only seemed to underscore this hypothesis, it also gave a partial explanation for it. Until the analyst could recognize his own nostalgia for a symbiotic relationship, he had to encourage the occurrence of those unexpected meetings which stemmed from a convergence between the transference and the countertransference.

Annals of Tourism Research, 2022

Tourism research on visiting friends and relatives remains normative and family-centric. The literature has yet to question the normative underpinnings of relationships and remains oriented around physical proximity. This paper therefore aims to understand the shifting qualities and intimacies of migrant personal relationships developed across diverse means for maintaining relationships. It draws from a multi-sited ethnography that includes interviews from migrants and friends and family living at a distance. Framed through theory on personal relationships and affect, we introduce the concept 'aspirational intimacy'. This shows how important relationships become oriented around aspirations of normalcy and belonging that construct shared capacities to feel connected, while imagining alternative possibilities for relationships and life-course trajectories.

Social and Personality Psychology …, 2011

People have a fundamental need to belong that, when satisfied,

2004

Chapter to appear in D. Mashek and A. Aron (Eds.), The Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in press).

Special Issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2008

In this paper I explore the emotions of “missing” and “longing” as integral (though not essential) features of the kin-work (di Leonardo) and emotional labour (Hochschild) needed to maintain transnational family relationships. I argue that these emotions manifest in at least four key ways: discursively (through words), physically (through the body) as well as through actions (practice) and imagination (ideas). Hence, I consider emotions through both of the dominant perspectives in theories of emotion - constructionism (with its emphasis on discourse) and embodiment (with its emphasis on sensory experience). Drawing on a sample of Italian migrants living in Australia and their ageing parents living in Italy, I argue that the emotions of missing and longing motivate kin to construct four types of shared (co)presence - virtual, proxy, physical and imagined - which reinforce the sense of family closeness that characterises Italian conceptions of health and well-being.