"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures / edited by Cliff Goddard ; Zhengdao Ye.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Goddard, Cliff (Editor), Ye, Zhengdao (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Series:	Benjamins current topics ; v. 84.
Subjects:	Semantics. Emotions > Cross-culural studies. Language and emotions > Cross-cultural studies. Intercultural communication. Metalanguage. Psycholinguistics. Language and emotions. Cross-cultural studies.

Table of 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.

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