TY - BOOK ID - 16833103 TI - Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective AU - Amberber, Mengistu AU - Bugenhagen, Robert D AU - Durst, Uwe AU - Enfield, N J AU - Goddard, Cliff AU - Harkins, Jean AU - Hasada, Rie AU - Kornacki, Paweł AU - Levontina, Irina B AU - Ye, Zhengdao AU - Zalizniak, Anna A AU - Wierzbicka, Anna PY - 2010 VL - 17 SN - 3110170647 3110880164 9783110880168 9783110170641 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages. KW - Emotions. KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Emotions KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Linguistics KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Feelings KW - Human emotions KW - Passions KW - Affect (Psychology) KW - Affective neuroscience KW - Apathy KW - Pathognomy KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Psychological aspects KW - Langage et langues KW - Psycholinguistique KW - Psycholinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16833103 AB - 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... ER -