The universality of the semantic structure of emotion terms: Methods for the study of inter-and intra-cultural variability

American Anthropologist

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 529-546

  Moore, Carmella C ^a   Romney, A Kimball ^a   Hsia, Ti Lien ^a   Rusch, Craig D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Vanguard University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cultural universals; Emotions; Inter cultural and intra cultural variability; Japanese; Linguistic relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033269195     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.529     Document Type: Article

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