This site was produced by Maïa Ponsonnet, Linguist at The University of Western Australia, in concertation with […]
This site was produced by Maïa Ponsonnet, Linguist at The University of Western Australia, in concertation with […]
Below are some scholarly references concerning langage and emotion in Australian Indigenous languages.
Please do not hesitate to email maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au if you cannot manage to access these resources.
Blakeman, Bree. (2015). An ethnography of emotion and morality. Toward a local Indigenous theory of value and social exchange on the Yolŋu Homelands in remote north-east Arnhem Land, Australia. Australian National University.
Burbank, Victoria K. (2014). Envy and egalitarianism in Aboriginal Australia: An integrative approach. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 25, 1–21.
Burbank, Victoria K. (2018). Fighting women. Anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia. University of California Press.
Charola, Erika, & Meakins, Felicity. (2016). Yijarni: True stories from Gurinjdji coutry. Aboriginal Studies Press.
Gaby, Alice R. (2006). The Thaayorre “true man”: Lexicon of the human body in an Australian language. In A. Majid, N. J. Enfield, & M. Van Staden (Eds.), Parts of the body: Cross-linguistic categorisation. Language sciences, 28 (Vol. 28, Issues 2–3, pp. 201–220).
Gaby, Alice R. (2008). Guts feelings: Locating emotion, life force and intellect in the Thaayorre body. In F. Sharifian, R. Dirven, Y. Ning, & S. Niemeier (Eds.), Body, culture and language: Conceptualizations of internal body organs across cultures and languages. (pp. 27–44). Mouton de Gruyter.
Konishi, Shino. (2020). Feeling the past: Indigenous history and emotions. Journal of Australian Studies, 44(2), 135–139.
Musharbash, Yasmine. (2007). Boredom, time and modernity: An example from Aboriginal Australia. American Anthropologist, 109(2), 207–317.
Musharbash, Yasmine. (2010). Marriage, love magic, and adultery: Warlpiri relationships as seen by three generations of anthropologists. Oceania, 80(3), 272–288.
Musharbash, Yasmine. (2010). Warlpiri fears/Whitefella fears: Ways of being in Central Australia seen through an emotion. Emotion, Space and Society, 3, 95–102.
Myers, Fred R. (1986). Pintupi country, Pintupi self: Sentiment, place and politics among Western Desert aborigines. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Smithsonian Institution Press.
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. Word for Feelings Poster. Alice Springs.
Peile, Anthony R. (1997). Body and soul: An Aboriginal view. Hesperian Press.
Ponsonnet, Maïa. (2014). The language of emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia). John Benjamins.
Ponsonnet, Maïa. (2019). Difference and repetition in language shift to a creole. The expression of emotions. Routledge.
Ponsonnet, Maïa, Hoffmann, Dorothea., & O’Keeffe, Isabel. (To appear). Emotion, body and mind across a continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages - Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition.
Ponsonnet, Maïa, & Laginha, Kitty-Jean. (To appear). The role of the body in descriptions of emotions. A typology of the Australian continent. Pragmatics and Cognition.
Turpin, Myf. (2002). Body part terms in Kaytetye feeling expressions . In N. J. Enfield & A. Wierzbicka (Eds.), The body in description of emotion, Pragmatics and Cognition (Vol. 10, pp. 271–303). John Benjamins.