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...
In this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of ...
The present study investigates the adjectival profiling of shame from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. This concept, overarching the field of negative self-evaluative emotions, is operationalized through two lexical categories ('shame' and 'embarrassment') that are comparable in the ...
One example is the facial expression ofconfusion. In our research, when we built Eastern and Western models ofconfusion, the top part of the face had similar signals across cultures (i.e., frowning eyes), but the mouth would be stretched open in different ways, depending on the culture. Y...
519 speech samples produced by 100 actors from 5 cultures. With large-scale statistical inference methods, we find that prosody can communicate at least 12 distinct kinds of emotion that are preserved across the 2 cultures. Analyses of the semantic and acoustic structure of the ...
Emotions are not necessarily universal across different languages and cultures. Mental lexicons of emotions depend strongly on contextual factors, such as language and culture. The Chinese language has unique linguistic properties that are different from other languages. As a main variant of Chinese, ...
Language is a powerful tool that helps people to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas. It is a way of communication that is 1 ___ across cultures and places. The ability to 2 ___ effectively is really important. Language 3 ___ passes information but also shows the identity and tradition...
In studies of emotions across cultures, the circumplex model (Russell, 1980) may bear importance. Emotional experiences can be understood based on valence (positive or pleasant to negative or unpleasant) and arousal (high arousal to low arousal). This conceptual model yields four quad- rants of ...
Emotion Expressions Across Cultures A major caveat to the patterns of expression described above is that the degree to which they generalize to people from most parts of the world is at present unestablished. Much of the empirical research on emotional expressions has thus far been conducted with...
: The Expression of Emotions and the Conflict between Ritual and Law 169 Tragic Emotions – Then and Now 193 Analyzing the Emotions across Three Ancient Cultures: Greece, India, China 211 Gender, Social Hierarchies, and Negative Emotions in Liu Xiang’s Biographies of Women 279 Emotions, ...