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Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harkins, Jean, Wierzbicka, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Colección:Cognitive linguistics research ; 17
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 ethn.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 421 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783110880168
3110880164