Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

Nachdruck 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-017064-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 865 g

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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.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harkins, Jean

Wierzbicka, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Harkins is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Anna Wierzbicka is Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.