Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology: English heart vs. Malay hati

Culture, Body, and Language: Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 75-102

  Goddard, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body parts; Cognitive linguistics; Emotion; English; Ethnopsychology; Lexical semantics; Malay; NSM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939873243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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