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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Testing emotional universals in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber 35
  • Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula / Robert D. Bugenhagen 69
  • Why Germans don't feel "anger" / Uwe Durst 115
  • Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion / N.J. Enfield 149
  • Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion / Cliff Goddard 167
  • Talking about anger in Central Australia / Jean Harkins 197
  • Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words / Rie Hasada 217
  • Concepts of anger in Chinese / Pawel Kornacki 255
  • Human emotions viewed through the Russian language / Irina B. Levontina, Anna A. Zalizniak 291
  • A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) / Anna Wierzbicka 337
  • An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese / Zhengdao Ye 359.