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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 17Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (421 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110170641
  • 9783110880168
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P107
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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 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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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