Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective
Wierzbicka, Anna / Harkins, Jean![Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/129/12998386/CHSBZCOP0312998386.jpg)
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, Ger...