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"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / edited by Cliff Goddard ; Zhengdao Ye. - 1 online resource - Benjamins Current Topics, volume 84 1874-0081 ; . - Benjamins current topics ; v. 84. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9789027266958 (pdf) 9027266956 (pdf) (hb ; alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016024450

Subjects--Personal Names:
Glück,...

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Schmerz Musikgruppe

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Semantics.
Emotions--Cross-culural studies.
Language and emotions--Cross-cultural studies.
Intercultural communication.
Metalanguage.
Psycholinguistics.
Sémantique.
Langage et émotions--Études transculturelles.
Métalangage.
Psycholinguistique.
semantics.
psycholinguistics.
PSYCHOLOGY--Physiological Psychology.
Intercultural communication.
Language and emotions.
Metalanguage.
Psycholinguistics.
Semantics.
Kontrastive Linguistik
Kultur
Sprache

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.

LC Class. No.: P325.5.E56

Dewey Class. No.: 152.4/2014