Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals

by Anna Wierzbicka

Book Overview

In this fascinating 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521599717
• ISBN13: 9780521599719
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"