Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Topics covered include language primordialism, referential language praxis and female discourse, amongst others.

1. Introduction: Linguistic Anthropology and Emotional Experience (by Palmer, Gary B.); 2. Pragmatic and Social Constructionist Approaches; 3. Language, Primordialism and Sentiment (by Schiffman, Harold); 4. Transforming Laments: Performativity and Rationalization as Linguistic Ideologies (by Wilce, Jr., James M.); 5. Dignity in Tragedy: How Javanese Women Speak of Emotion (by Berman, Laine); 6. Public and Private Voices: Japanese Style Shifting and the Display of Affective Intensity (by Dickel Dunn, Cynthia); 7. Cognitive Approaches; 8. From Hiren to Happi-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story (by Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.); 9. Sounds of the Heart and Mind: Mimetics of Emotional States in Japanese (by Occhi, Debra J.); 10. Bursting with Grief, Erupting with Shame: A Conceptual and Grammatical Analysis of Emotion-Tropes in Tagalog (by Palmer, Gary B.); 11. The Convergence of Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Linguistics: Lexical Semantics and the L2 Acquisition of Love, Fear and Happiness (by Grabois, Howard); 12. Theory; 13. Language And Emotion Concepts: What Experientialists and Social Constructionists Have in Common (by Kovecses, Zoltan); 14. Name Index; 15. Subject Index