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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary appr…
"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary app…
"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary app…
Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
by Lomas, Tim
fromMIT Press Ser
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Mapping Well-Being -- Experiential Cartography -- The Impact of Language and Culture -- Exploring Well-Being -- 2 Feelings -- Introduction -- Positive Feelings -- Ambivalent Feelings -- Summary -- 3 Relationships -- Introduction -- Love -- Proso…
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from…
Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference? Certain terms not easily translatable into English - for example, nirvāṇa (from Sanskrit), or agápē (from Classical Gre…