Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001
• Edizione: Reprint 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages; Emotions; Psycholinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HarkinsJean WierzbickaAnna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Introduction / Wierzbicka, Anna / Harkins, Jean -- Testing emotional universals in Amharic / Amberber, Mengistu -- Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula / Bugenhagen, Robert D. -- Why Germans don't feel "anger" / Durst, Uwe -- Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion / Enfield, N. J. -- Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion / Goddard, Cliff -- Talking about anger in Central Australia / Harkins, Jean -- Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words / Hasada, Rie -- Concepts of anger in Chinese / Kornacki, Paweł -- Human emotions viewed through the Russian language / Levontina, Irina B. / Zalizniak, Anna A. -- A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) / Wierzbicka, Anna -- An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese / Ye, Zhengdao -- Subject and name index -- Words and phrases index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective
• ISBN: 3-11-088016-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464173303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]