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Publication details [#28575]

Hasada, Rie. 2002. ´Body part´ terms and emotions in Japanese. Pragmatics & Cognition 10 (1/2) : 107–128.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | crosslinguistic perspective | emotion | metalanguage | semantics1

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This paper explores the use and meaning of Japanese (quasi) body part terms depicting emotional states, namely kokoro, mune, hara, ki, and mushi. It employs Wierzbicka's 'Natural Semantic Metalanguage' to analyze data from various sources.