Universals and Variation in the Lexicon of Mental State Concepts

Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cross linguistic semantics; Emotion terms; Epistemic verbs; Ethnopsychological constructs; Natural semantic metalanguage; Word meanings

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EID: 84920618261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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