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Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Release : 1999-11-18
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emotions Across Languages and Cultures by : Anna Wierzbicka
Download or read book Emotions Across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Wierzbicka. This book was released on 1999-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Release : 1999-11-18
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 426/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Emotions across Languages and Cultures by : Anna Wierzbicka
Download or read book Emotions across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Wierzbicka. This book was released on 1999-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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
Release : 2024-02-27
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Between Us by : Batja Mesquita
Download or read book Between Us written by Batja Mesquita. This book was released on 2024-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Cliff Goddard
Release : 2018-03-20
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage by : Cliff Goddard
Download or read book Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage written by Cliff Goddard. This book was released on 2018-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other leading approaches to linguistic semantics. The book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics at all levels, communication and translation scholars, and anyone interested in a systematic and non Anglocentric approach to meaning, culture and cognition.
Author : Farzad Sharifian
Release : 2008-11-03
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culture, Body, and Language by : Farzad Sharifian
Download or read book Culture, Body, and Language written by Farzad Sharifian. This book was released on 2008-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One 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.
