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Wierzbicka, Anna. 1988. L'amour, la colère, la joie, l'ennui: La sémantique des émotions dans une perspective transculturelle. Languages 89 : 97–107.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
French
Language as a subject

Annotation

Based on the observation that dictionaries often display circularity in their definition of the meaning of related words, the author studies the possibility of constituting a set of `indefinable words', i.e. of semantic universals expressing basic aspects of the human condition. Five words expressing emotions in Ifaluc and French are examined.