ISBN:
9783110157673
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (468 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] v.10
Parallel Title:
Print version Speaking of Emotions : Conceptualisation and Expression
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 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"; The cultural dynamics of "national character": The case of the new Russians; Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor; Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy?; Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese; Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study
Description / Table of Contents:
II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fearAre there any emotion-specific metaphors?; The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish; Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger; The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek; Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by; III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse; The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases
Description / Table of Contents:
On emotions that one can "immerse into", "fall into" and "come to": the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructionsThe ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog; Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy; The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot's novel Miaha; TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 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"; The cultural dynamics of "national character": The case of the new Russians; Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor; Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy?; Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese; Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study
Description / Table of Contents:
II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fearAre there any emotion-specific metaphors?; The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish; Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger; The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek; Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by; III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse; The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases
Description / Table of Contents:
On emotions that one can "immerse into", "fall into" and "come to": the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructionsThe ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog; Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy; The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot's novel Miaha; TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110806007
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