Riley, Denise, 1948-

Impersonal passion : language as affect / Denise Riley. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2005. - viii, 142 p. ; 25 cm. NFIC

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-142) and index.

Malediction -- "What I want back is what I was" : consolation's retrospect -- The right to be lonely -- Some why's and why mes -- Linguistic inhibition as a cause of pregnancy -- "Lying" when you aren't -- All mouth and no trousers : linguistic embarrassments -- "But then I wouldn't be here" -- Your name which isn't yours.

082233500X (hardcover : alk. paper) 0822335123 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004018748


Language and emotions.
Psycholinguistics.

P37 / .R54 2005

401/.9

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