Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective / / ed. by Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Amberber, Mengistu,; Bugenhagen, Robert D.,; Durst, Uwe,; Enfield, N. J.,; Goddard, Cliff,; Harkins, Jean,; Hasada, Rie,; Kornacki, Paweł,; Levontina, Irina B.,; Wierzbicka, Anna,; Ye, Zhengdao,; Zalizniak, Anna A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Harkins, Jean,; Wierzbicka, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (421 p.)
• Other title: I-VI --; Introduction --; Testing emotional universals in Amharic --; Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula --; Why Germans don't feel “anger” --; Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion --; Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion --; Talking about anger in Central Australia --; Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words --; Concepts of anger in Chinese --; Human emotions viewed through the Russian language --; A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) --; An inquiry into “sadness” in Chinese --; Subject and name index --; Words and phrases index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110880168; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110233940
• ISSN: 1861-4132
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110880168
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka.

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 ethnocentrism and not dependent upon English emotion terms, but relying instead on independently established conceptual universals. Students of languages and cultures, psychology and cognition will find this volume a rich resource of description and analysis of emotional meanings in cultural context.