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Title "Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / edited by Cliff Goddard ; Zhengdao Ye
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; volume 84
Benjamins current topics ; v. 84.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
SUBJECT Glück,... gnd
Schmerz Musikgruppe gnd
Subject Semantics.
Emotions -- Cross-culural studies
Language and emotions -- Cross-cultural studies
Intercultural communication.
Metalanguage.
Psycholinguistics.
semantics.
psycholinguistics.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
Intercultural communication
Language and emotions
Metalanguage
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Kontrastive Linguistik
Kultur
Sprache
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Goddard, Cliff, editor
Ye, Zhengdao, editor
LC no. 2016024450
ISBN 9789027266958
9027266956