The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Special issue of the International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021)
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[International Journal of Language and Culture, 8:1] 2021. vii, 168 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2021
Published online on 7 June 2021
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Table of Contents
- The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics: Past, present and futureAnna Gladkova & Jesús Romero-Trillo | pp. 1–13
- Pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker : A lexical anthropology of Danish folk aestheticsCarsten Levisen | pp. 14–34
- “Is beauty only skin deep?”: The conceptualization of ‘beauty’ in Mandarin ChineseJock Wong & Marshal Or | pp. 35–61
- From beautiful to cute: Shifting meanings in Japanese language and cultureLaura Miller & Carolyn S. Stevens | pp. 62–83
- “What is beauty?”: Cultural semantics of the Russian folk aestheticsAnna Gladkova | pp. 84–105
- Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder? The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in EnglishAnna Gladkova & Jesús Romero-Trillo | pp. 106–127
- Conceptualizations of ugly and beautiful: An analysis of im/politeness metapragmatic markers in PersianTahmineh Tayebi | pp. 128–146
- The good, the bad… and the ugly? The conceptualization of aesthetics in SpanishJesús Romero-Trillo | pp. 147–168
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