'Sadness' in the Ancient Egyptian lexicon: a lexical-semantic analysis of the Lexeme ind
- Publisher
- Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University
- Date
- 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Author/Creator
- Jenkins, Madeline Victoria
- Description
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Description
- Theoretical thesis.
- Description
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Description
- 1 Introduction -- 2 The research content -- 3
Research methods and approaches 4 Lexical-semantic analysis of ind -- 5
Analysis of the ind emotion concept -- Conclusions.
- Description
- The social constructionist position on emotions
argues that emotions are, to an extent, constructed by the cultural and
temporal contexts in which they are evoked. In the context of the
ancient past, this insight is perhaps even more crucial: as the world of
the ancient Egyptians is culturally and temporally removed from the
21st Century context, it cannot be presumed that ancient Egyptian
emotions mirrored modern understandings. A method that takes this new
insight into perspective is thus needed. The History of Emotions
approach aims to examine how emotions (particularly, though not
exclusively, via emotion words in textual sources) were conceptualised,
triggered and expressed in the past. Considering that the understanding
of much of the Egyptian emotional lexicon is imprecise, this Master of
Research (MRes) thesis explores the usage of emotion vocabularies in the
ancient Egyptian textual record by employing the rigorous analytical
apparatus of lexical semantics. Through a case study approach, this
research examines a single lexeme belonging to the SADNESS semantic
field, namely ind (Wb 1, 102.16-18), and in doing so, directly responds
to the limitations in the understanding of the Egyptian emotional
lexicon by sharpening its definition. This thesis first elucidates the
precise meaning of the lexeme, before examining the usage of ind in the
textual record. Such close contextual analysis illuminates how the
emotion concept(s) denoted by ind could have been linguistically
conceptualised, such as the contextual situations that motivated its
usage, the potential experiencers of ind, as well as how ind was
expressed and described to be alleviated. Key theoretical concepts from
the History of Emotions approach then frame the insights of the
lexical-semantic analysis by highlighting the limitations and biases of
the Egyptian documentary record. In sum, this research contributes to
the growing field of emotion research in Egyptology by shedding light on
emotion concepts that are expressed in the Egyptian textual record.
- Description
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 139 pages) illustrations
- Subject Keyword
- Egyptian language -- Lexicography
- Subject Keyword
- Egyptian Language -- Semantics
- Subject Keyword
- Egyptian language -- Mood
- Subject Keyword
- Lexical semantics
- Subject Keyword
- Egyptian lexical semantics
- Subject Keyword
- History of emotions
- Subject Keyword
- Emotions
- Subject Keyword
- Sadness
- Resource Type
- Thesis MRes
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of History and Archaeology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1283392
- Identifier
- mq:72297
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright Madeline Victoria Jenkins 2021
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