Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective /

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

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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 sal...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (421 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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