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Title "Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / edited by Cliff Goddard ; Zhengdao Ye.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; volume 84
Benjamins current topics ; v. 84.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Semantics.
Semantics.
Emotions -- Cross-culural studies.
Emotions.
Language and emotions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Language and emotions.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
Metalanguage.
Metalanguage.
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Goddard, Cliff, editor.
Ye, Zhengdao, editor.
Other Form: Print version: "Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027242723 (DLC) 2016013271
ISBN 9789027266958 (pdf)
9027266956 (pdf)
9789027242723 (hardback ; alkaline paper)