Language and Metalanguage: Key Issues in Emotion Research

Emotion Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-14

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

language in emotion research; new ways of studying subjectivity; NSM methodology; basic emotions, emotions and cultural scripts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993710001     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908097175     Document Type: Article

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