Components of emotional meaning : a sourcebook Publications on emotion (and the affective sciences in general) have exploded in the last decade. Numerous research teams and individual scholars from many different disciplines have published research papers or books about many different aspects of emotions and their role in behaviour and society. However one aspect of emotional research that has been somewhat neglected is the way in which emotional terms translate into other languages. When using terms like anger sadness fear disgust and joy for so called basic emotions as well as terms like shame guilt pride regret and contempt for more complex emotions it is naturally assumed that the emotion terms used for research in the native language of the researchers and translated into English are completely equivalent in meaning. However this is not generally the case. In many cases there is no direct one to one relationship between an English term and a term in an alternative language. In fact there can be significant differences in the way that these seemingly similar emotional terms can be applied across various languages with important implications for how we review and appraise this work. Publishers website