Acknowledgements

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

pp.：  7 – 11

I. The conceptualisation of emotions across cultures: national character through time

pp.：  11 – 23

“Sadness” and “anger” in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called “basic human emotions”

pp.：  23 – 25

The cultural dynamics of “national character”: The case of the new Russians

pp.：  25 – 51

Russian “national character” and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor

pp.：  51 – 71

Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy?

pp.：  71 – 77

Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese

pp.：  77 – 105

Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study

pp.：  105 – 121

II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fear

pp.：  121 – 147

Are there any emotion-specific metaphors?

pp.：  147 – 149

The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish

pp.：  149 – 175

Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger

pp.：  175 – 213

The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek

pp.：  213 – 249

Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by

pp.：  249 – 275

III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse

pp.：  275 – 293

The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases

pp.：  293 – 295

On emotions that one can “immerse into”, “fall into” and “come to”: the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructions

pp.：  295 – 317

The ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog

pp.：  317 – 353

Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy

pp.：  353 – 379

The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot’s novel Miaha

pp.：  379 – 397

TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation

pp.：  397 – 431

Index

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