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Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 2002. Colourful psi´s sleep furiously: Depicting emotional states in some African languages. Pragmatics & Cognition 10 (1/2) : 57–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | crosslinguistic perspective | emotion | figurative speech | language and culture

Language as a subject

Nilotic

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This study proposes to examine the role of body and colour terminology in figurative speech depicting emotional states in Nilotic and Bantu languages. It is demonstrated that figurative speech is often used in combination with alternative strategies that involve on-record statements.