Emotions and the body in Russian and English

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5803258
AutoresAneta Pavlenko (0000-0003-1090-4348, Temple University, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume10
Fascículo1-2
Páginas207-241
Data de publicação2002-07-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/pc.10.12.10pav
OpenAlexW2011692491
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

The goal of the present paper is to examine Wierzbicka's (1992, 1998a, 1999) claims that the connection between emotions and the body is encoded and emphasized in Russian to a higher degree than it is in English, and that English favors the adjectival pattern in emotion discourse, while Russian prefers the verbal one. The study analyzes oral narratives elicited through the same visual stimuli from 40 monolingual Russians and 40 monolingual Americans. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analyses of the narrative corpus support Wierzbicka's claims, suggesting that 'the reading of the body' is not a culture- and language-free experience, but is shaped by cultural, social, and linguistic forces, as well as by individual differences. At the same time, neither quantitative nor qualitative differences have been identified with regard to gendered use of emotion discourse

Qualitative analysis · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism