Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective
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- ISBN 9783110170641
- Weight: 734g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2001
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Jean Harkins is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Anna Wierzbicka is Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
