Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective
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Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

  1. 427 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective by Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka, Jean Harkins,Anna Wierzbicka in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Historical & Comparative Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Testing emotional universals in Amharic
  3. Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula
  4. Why Germans don't feel “anger”
  5. Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion
  6. Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion
  7. Talking about anger in Central Australia
  8. Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words
  9. Concepts of anger in Chinese
  10. Human emotions viewed through the Russian language
  11. A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro)
  12. An inquiry into “sadness” in Chinese
  13. Subject and name index
  14. Words and phrases index