Emotions across Langs & Cultures: Diversity and Universals (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Softcover

Wierzbicka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521599717 ISBN 13: 9780521599719

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Emotions across Languages and Cultures This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts. Full description

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Book Description

In this fascinating book, Anna Wierzbicka explores human emotions and how they are expressed in faces, bodies, and modes of speech; and she places the findings into both worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

Synopsis

In this ground-breaking new book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and linguistic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and culturally-shaped 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. As well as offering a new perspective on human emotions based on the analysis of language and ways of talking about emotion, this fascinating and controversial book attempts to identify universals of human emotion by analysing empirical evidence from different languages and cultures. This book will be invaluable to academics and students of emotion across the social sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521599717
• ISBN 13: 9780521599719
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364