Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Articles
4. Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures 1
5. “Pain” and “suffering” in cross-linguistic perspective 19
6. The story of “Danish Happiness” 45
7. The meaning of “happiness” ( xìngfú ) and “emotional pain” ( tòngkŭ ) in Chinese 65
8. Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes 87
9. Some remarks on “pain” in Latin American Spanish 109
10. The semantics and morphosyntax of tare “hurt/pain” in Koromu (PNG) 123
11. Index 143