"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures /
Goddard, Cliff,editor.
Ye, Zhengdao,editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Semantics.
Emotions
Language and emotions
Intercultural communication.
Metalanguage.
Psycholinguistics.
"Happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures