The cultural dynamics of “national character”: The case of the new Russians

Chapters in this book

1. I-XXII I
2. I. The conceptualisation of emotions across cultures: national character through time
3. “Sadness” and “anger” in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called “basic human emotions” 3
4. The cultural dynamics of “national character”: The case of the new Russians 29
5. Russian “national character” and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor 49
6. Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy? 55
7. Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese 83
8. Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study 99
9. II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fear
10. Are there any emotion-specific metaphors? 127
11. The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish 153
12. Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger 191
13. The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek 227
14. Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by 253
15. III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse
16. The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases 273
17. On emotions that one can “immerse into”, “fall into” and “come to”: the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructions 295
18. The ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog 331
19. Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy 357
20. The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot’s novel Miaha 375
21. TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation 409
22. Index 441
23. 445-446 445