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Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-18
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521599719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780521590426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of speech are all explored and Wierzbicka shows how the bodily expression of emotion varies across cultures and challenges traditional approaches to the study of facial expressions. This book will be invaluable to academics and students of emotion across the social sciences.
Author: Batja Mesquita
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781324074731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year * One of KCRW's Best Reads of the Year * A Next Big Idea Club Top 21 Psychology Book of the Year * One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together.
Author: Farzad Sharifian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 3110199106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between culture, body and language has not received the due attention that it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in relation to body and language. A well-established notion that appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a collective attempt to explore the relationship between body, language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which internal body organs have been employed in different languages to conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for the observed similarities as well as differences of the various conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to internal body organs across different languages but also with the origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such as that of Descartes.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angeliki Athanasiadou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-11-22
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 3110806002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Besemeres
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780702236037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives.
Author: J. Dewaele
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-08-11
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0230289509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlarge-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the author looks at the factors that affect multilinguals' self-perceived competence, attitudes, communicative anxiety, language choice and code-switching.
Author: Johnny R. J. Fontaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 0199592748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen using emotion terms such as anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and contempt, it is assumed that the terms used in the native language of the researchers, and translated into English, are completely equivalent in meaning. This is often not the case. This book presents an extensive cross-cultural/linguistic review of the meaning of emotion words
Author: Cliff Goddard
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2016-07-26
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9027266956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures, and seeks to answer this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to “happiness” and “pain” in many languages and in different religious and cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of the expressions in question, but also provide extensive cultural contextualization, showing how these meanings are truly cultural. Methodologically, while in full agreement with the view of many social scientists and economists that self-reports are the bedrock of happiness research, the volume presents a body of evidence highlighting the problem of translation and showing how local concepts of “happiness” and “pain” can be understood without an Anglo bias. The languages examined include (Mandarin) Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Japanese, Koromu (a Papua New Guinean language), and Latin American Spanish. Originally published in International Journal of Language and Culture Vol. 1:2 (2014).
