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In:Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 14] 2021
► pp. 123–148

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Cross-cultural models of mental hurt emotion clusters

ORCiD logo with link | State University of Applied Sciences in Konin
 | University of Lodz
Published online: 8 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.14.07lew
Abstract
The main objective of this chapter is to construct models of conceptualizations of mental hurt emotional clusters in a cross-cultural perspective, taking British English and Polish as the major areas of investigation. The materials and sources of the data are the GRID instrument, the online emotions sorting task and Polish and British English language corpora, particularly their collocational language-specific profiles. The concordances and collocations are generated from the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish as well as monitor corpora of Polish and English. The analyses and discussion of hurt Emotion Event scenarios in terms of some of their cultural dimensions demonstrate a complex structure of hurt and the occurrence of multiple cluster members in each language, comprising derivatives of physical hurt and pain events, their presuppositions, causes, effects and conditioning. As opposed to a focus on single emotions, we posit a viewpoint that centers on emotion clusters, covering – in the case of hurt – sadness, frustration, anger, and others, as well as pride – the main target of hurt.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.hurt Emotion Event
  • 3.Emotion clusters
  • 4.Cultural influences
  • 5.Aims of the study
  • 6.Research methodology
    • 6.1Online emotions sorting methodology
      • 6.1.1Procedure
      • 6.1.2Participants
    • 6.2GRID
      • 6.2.1Procedure
      • 6.2.2Participants
    • 6.3Corpus data
      • 6.3.1English and Polish hurt equivalence
      • 6.3.2Parallel corpus equivalents
  • 7.Results
    • 7.1Online emotions sorting results
    • 7.2GRID results
    • 7.3Corpus data analysis and discussion
      • 7.3.1hurt Emotion Events in corpora
      • 7.3.2pride, honor, dignity
      • 7.3.3hurt and anger in English
      • 7.3.4hurt and sadness in Polish
      • 7.3.5Collectivistic nature of Polish hurt
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Corpora and corpus tools
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