Current emotion research in the language sciences

Emotion Review

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 432-443

  Majid, Asifa ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

categorization; emotion; language sciences; linguistics; sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867149678     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912445827     Document Type: Review

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