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Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

By: Anna Wierzbicka (Editor), Jean Harkins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 December 2001

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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.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Psychology Psychology: Emotions Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Introduction	p. 1
Testing emotional universals in Amharic	p. 35
Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula	p. 69
Why Germans don't feel "anger"	p. 115
Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion	p. 149
Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion	p. 167
Talking about anger in Central Australia	p. 197
Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words	p. 217
Concepts of anger in Chinese	p. 255
Human emotions viewed through the Russian language	p. 291
A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro)	p. 337
An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese	p. 359
Subject and name index	p. 405
Words and phrases index	p. 413
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