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Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective / edited by Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
- Cognitive linguistics research ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Emotions.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume aims to enrich the current interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human emo-tions by presenting studies based on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of languages of the world. Each language-specific study gives detailed semantic descriptions of the meanings of culturally salient emotion words and expressions, offering fascinating insights into people's emotional lives in diverse cultures including Amharic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Mbula, Polish and Russian. The book is unique in its emphasis on empirical language data, analyzed in a framework free...
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Introduction / Wierzbicka, Anna / Harkins, Jean
- Testing emotional universals in Amharic / Amberber, Mengistu
- Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula / Bugenhagen, Robert D.
- Why Germans don't feel "anger" / Durst, Uwe
- Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion / Enfield, N. J.
- Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion / Goddard, Cliff
- Talking about anger in Central Australia / Harkins, Jean
- Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words / Hasada, Rie
- Concepts of anger in Chinese / Kornacki, Paweł
- Human emotions viewed through the Russian language / Levontina, Irina B. / Zalizniak, Anna A.
- A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) / Wierzbicka, Anna
- An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese / Ye, Zhengdao
- Subject and name index
- Words and phrases index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110880168
- 3110880164
- OCLC:
- 843635607
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