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discusses Ponsonnet's analysis of present-day Dalabon emotion terms and expressions, and assesses its validity for pre-contact Aboriginal Australia.

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an opportunity to weigh on the semantics of emotion expressions among a formerly isolated people

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This page is a summary of: The Language of Emotions: The Case of Dalabon (Australia) by Maïa Ponsonnet, Anthropological Linguistics, January 2016, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/anl.2016.0002.
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