Harkins / Wierzbicka Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

Nachdruck 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-088016-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 427 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harkins, Jean

Wierzbicka, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

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.