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Publication details [#28572]

Ameka, Felix K. 2002. Cultural scripting of body parts for emotions: On ´jealousy´ and related emotions on Ewe. Pragmatics & Cognition 10 (1/2) : 27–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | crosslinguistic perspective | emotion | experience | language and culture

Language as a subject

English | Ewe

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This study examines 'body image constructions' in Ewe, employed to describe feelings that resemble English 'envy', 'jealousy' and 'covetousness'. These constructions which make up a moving body, a psychologized eye and red eyes are, are considered as non-figurative expressions.