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meant to ensure that all members of a group are aware of a new contract and can thus
behave accordingly. During this process indices like rings and ceremonial clothing
become symbols ofthe relationship. In this chapter I will show how everyday language
use expresses emotion. In the latter part I will show how expressions that are usually
used in a religious context are intentionally used profanely in everyday language for
obtaining particular affects (emotional effects).
How lANGUAGE ENCODES EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS
aspects:
In our discussion of emotional encoding in language, we shall look at three
>- Grammatical structures
>- The encoding strategies
>- How one uses his sensual perceptions as basic metaphors
GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN EMOTIVE EXPRESSIONS
All the major syntactic structures I.e. nouns, noun phrases, prepositions,
prepositional phrases, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, adverbial phrases, adjuncts, and
auxiliaries are involved in encoding emotion. Emotion is also encoded by tone and
tempo (suprasegmental aspects of phonology). Therefore we shall look at the major
syntactic constituents of English and Afrikaans and lsiZulu as the most widely spoken
languages in South Africa examining the conceptual level in the relationship between
language and emotion.