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Title Speaking of emotions : conceptualisation and expression / edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou, Elżbieta Tabakowska.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 444 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cognitive linguistics research ; 10
Cognitive linguistics research ; 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Angeliki Athanasiadou and Elzbieta Tabakowska -- I. The conceptualisation of emotions across cultures: national character through time. "Sadness" and "anger" in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called "basic human emotions" / Anna Wierzbicka. The cultural dynamics of "national character": The case of the new Russians / Henrietta Mondry and John R. Taylor. Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor / Anna Wierzbicka. Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy? / Catherine Travis. Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese / Rie Hasada. Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study / Gabor Gyori -- II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fear. Are there any emotion-specific metaphors? / Zoltan Kovecses. The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish / Agnieszka Mikolajczuk.
Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger / John R. Taylor and Thandi G. Mbense. The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek / Angeliki Athanasiadou. Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by / Elzbieta Tabakowska -- III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse. The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases / Gunter Radden. On emotions that one can "immerse into", "fall into" and "come to": the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructions / Anna D. Mostovaja. The ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog / Gary B. Palmer and Rick Brown. Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy / Stefan Grondelaers and Dirk Geeraerts. The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot's novel Miaha / Mechthild Reh. TIRED and EMOTIONAL -- On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation / Paul Werth.
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Subject Language and emotions.
Language and emotions.
Expression.
Expression.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Added Author Athanasiadou, Angeliki.
Tabakowska, Elżbieta.
Other Form: Print version: Speaking of emotions. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998 (DLC) 98009761
ISBN 9783110806007 (electronic book)
3110806002 (electronic book)
3110157675 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9783110157673