"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014)

Editors

Cliff Goddard | Griffith University

Zhengdao Ye | Australian National University

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 1:2] 2014. v, 141 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.1.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye	131–148
“Pain” and “suffering” in cross-linguistic perspective Anna Wierzbicka	149–173
The story of “Danish Happiness” Global discourse and local semantics Carsten Levisen	174–193
The meaning of “happiness” (xìngfú) and “emotional pain” (tòngkŭ) in Chinese Zhengdao Ye	194–215
Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes Yuko Asano-Cavanagh	216–238
Some remarks on “pain” in Latin American Spanish Zuzanna Bułat-Silva	239–252
The semantics and morphosyntax of tare “hurt/pain” in Koromu (PNG): Verbal and nominal constructions Carol Priestley	253–271

Cited by (3)

Cited by three other publications

Kulmanova, Z. & A. Grimm

2025. THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HAPPINESS IN KAZAKH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. Tiltanym :3 ► pp. 61 ff.

Kulmanova, Zulfiya

2025. The concept of “happiness” in Turkic languages: A linguocultural approach (based on Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkish) . Turkic Studies Journal 7:4 ► pp. 214 ff.

Farese, Gian Marco

2016. The Cultural Semantics of the Japanese Emotion Terms 'Haji' and 'Hazukashii'. New Voices in Japanese Studies 8 ► pp. 32 ff.

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Subjects and metadata

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Anthropological Linguistics

Pragmatics

Applied linguistics

Psychology

Cognitive psychology