This paper is intended to complement--in a highly tentative way--current research on relationships between discourses and emotions. I have been guided to the perspective I will propose by the people with whom I have worked, rural, Hindi-speaking Fiji Indians. On the one hand, I will provide a brief ethnographic account of some of the notions and theories through which they inform their own understandings of talk and sentiment. My underlying contention, however, is that there may be a broader heuristic value in the countercase they provide.

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