| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 421 pages) |
| Series |
Cognitive linguistics research ; 17 |
| Contents |
Testing emotional universals in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber 35 -- Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula / Robert D. Bugenhagen 69 -- Why Germans don't feel "anger" / Uwe Durst 115 -- Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion / N.J. Enfield 149 -- Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion / Cliff Goddard 167 -- Talking about anger in Central Australia / Jean Harkins 197 -- Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words / Rie Hasada 217 -- Concepts of anger in Chinese / Pawel Kornacki 255 -- Human emotions viewed through the Russian language / Irina B. Levontina, Anna A. Zalizniak 291 -- A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) / Anna Wierzbicka 337 -- An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese / Zhengdao Ye 359 |
| 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 of ethn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Language and languages.
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Emotions.
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Psycholinguistics.
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languages (study discipline)
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Emotions
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Language and languages
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Psycholinguistics
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Semantik
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Wortfeld
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Semantisches Merkmal
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Gefühl
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Psycholinguistik
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Universalien
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Emoties.
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Taalgebruik.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harkins, Jean
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Wierzbicka, Anna
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| ISBN |
9783110880168 |
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3110880164 |
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