Language and Metalanguage: Key Issues in Emotion Research

By Anna Wierzbicka. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Children’s Interpretation of Facial Expressions: The Long Path from Valence-Based to Specific Discrete Categories (2013, background): “…in particular (Lindquist, Barrett, Bliss-Moreau, & Russell, 2006; Lindquist & Gendron, 2013), and with research showing that different cultures and languages partition the emotion domain differently (de Mendoza, Fernández-Dols, Parrott, & Carrera, 2010; Russell & Sato, 1995; Wierzbicka, 2009).”
Everyday Understandings of Happiness, Good Life, and Satisfaction: Three Different Facets of Well-being (2017, methodology): “Although we adhere to common translational practice of well-being research in Norway, we THREE FACETS OF WELL-BEING 29 cannot take for granted that the Norwegian words lykke, godt liv, and tilfredshet precisely mirror their English counterparts (Oishi et al. 2013; Wierzbicka 2009).”
Interjections and Emotion (with Special Reference to “Surprise” and “Disgust”) (2014, methodology): “To rely on them as analytical categories is therefore not only imprecise but Anglocentric (Wierzbicka, 2009a, 2009b).”
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, background): “Wierzbicka (2009) suggests that English speakers, who use adjectives more frequently to code emotions, conceptualize emotions as states but Russian speakers, who use verbs, conceptualize them as activities instead.”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, unknown): “Even the same emotion categories can contain different content across cultures (e.g., sadness is an experience of physical agony in Russian but loss in English; Wierzbicka 2009; for reviews, see Mesquita & Frijda 1992; Mesquita & Walker 2003; Russell 1991; Wierzbicka 1992).”