"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures
In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
cop. 2016
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| Series: | Benjamins Current Topics ;
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007730299708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
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
