“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures write by Cliff Goddard. This book was released on 2016-07-26. “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures, and seeks to answer this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to “happiness” and “pain” in many languages and in different religious and cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of the expressions in question, but also provide extensive cultural contextualization, showing how these meanings are truly cultural. Methodologically, while in full agreement with the view of many social scientists and economists that self-reports are the bedrock of happiness research, the volume presents a body of evidence highlighting the problem of translation and showing how local concepts of “happiness” and “pain” can be understood without an Anglo bias. The languages examined include (Mandarin) Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Japanese, Koromu (a Papua New Guinean language), and Latin American Spanish. Originally published in International Journal of Language and Culture Vol. 1:2 (2014).
"Happiness" and "pain" Across Languages and Cultures
"Happiness" and "pain" Across Languages and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Happiness" and "pain" Across Languages and Cultures write by Zhengdao Ye. This book was released on 2014. "Happiness" and "pain" Across Languages and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Words and Meanings
Words and Meanings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words and Meanings write by Cliff Goddard. This book was released on 2014. Words and Meanings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication write by Kerry Mullan. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication write by Lauren Sadow. This book was released on 2019-10-23. Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
