This paper addresses the question of how feelings are expressed in Kaytetye, a Central Australian language of the Pama-Nyugan
family. It identifies three different formal constructions for expressing feelings, and explores the extent to which specific body
part terms are associated with types of feelings, based on linguistic evidence in the form of lexical compounds, collocations and
the way people talk about feelings. It is suggested that particular body part terms collocate with different feeling expressions
for different reasons: either because the body part is the perceived locus of the feeling, or because of a lexicalised polysemy of
a body part term, or because of a metonymic association between a body part, a behaviour and a feeling.
Zhou, Pin, Hugo Critchley, Sarah Garfinkel & Ya Gao
2021. The conceptualization of emotions across cultures: a model based on interoceptive neuroscience. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 125 ► pp. 314 ff.
2016. Their Hands Have Lost Their Bones: Exploring Cultural Scripts in Two West African Affect Lexica. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 45:6 ► pp. 1473 ff.
Ma-Kellams, Christine
2014. Cross-cultural differences in somatic awareness and interoceptive accuracy: a review of the literature and directions for future research. Frontiers in Psychology 5
García, Jaime Echeverría & Miriam López Hernández
2013. La expresión corporal del miedo entre los antiguos nahuas. Anales de Antropología 47:1 ► pp. 143 ff.
Dzokoto, Vivian Afi & Sumie Okazaki
2006. Happiness in the Eye and the Heart: Somatic Referencing in West African Emotion Lexica. Journal of Black Psychology 32:2 ► pp. 17 ff.
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