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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807258703321

Titolo

"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / / edited by Cliff Goddard, Zhengdao Ye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-272-6695-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Benjamins Current Topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; Volume 84

Disciplina

152.4/2014

Soggetti

Semantics

Emotions

Language and emotions

Intercultural communication

Metalanguage

Psycholinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Exploring "happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye -- Pain and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective / Anna Wierzbicka -- The story of "Danish Happiness": Global discourse and local semantics / Carsten Levisen -- The meaning of "happiness" (xìngfú) and "emotional pain" (tòngku) in Chinese / Zhengdao Ye -- Japanese interpretations of "pain" and the use of psychomimes / Yuko Asano-Cavanagh -- Some remarks on "pain" in Latin American Spanish / Zuzanna Bulat Silva -- The semantics and morphosyntax of Tare "hurt/pain" in Koromu (png): verbal and nominal constructions / Carol Priestley.