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By presenting studies based on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of languages of the world, this volume intends to enrich the current interdisciplinary theorectical discussion of human emotions. Each language-specific study gives detailed semantic descriptions of the meanings of culturally salient emotion words and expressions, offering insights into people's emotional lives in diverse cultures including Amharic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Mbula, Polish and Russian. The emphasis is on empirical language data analyzed in a framework free of ethnocentrism and not dependant on English emotion terms, but relying instead on independantly established conceptual universals. Students of languages and cultures, pyschology and cogitation should find find this volume a rich resource of description and analysis of emotional meanings in cultural context.

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Jean Harkins is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Anna Wierzbicka is Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

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