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"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Cliff Goddard, Zhengdao Ye
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 9789027266958, 9027266956, 9027242720
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- English
- 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