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"Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective

Wierzbicka, Anna

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This paper builds on findings of the author's 1999 book Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals, which tentatively identified eleven universals pertaining to human emotions. The paper probes some of those "emotional universals" further, especially in relation to 'laughing', 'crying', and 'pain'. At the same time, the author continues her campaign against pseudo-universals, focussing in particular on anthropological and philosophical discourse of "suffering". The paper...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorWierzbicka, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:11:53Z
dc.identifier.issn2214-3165
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/63879
dc.description.abstractThis paper builds on findings of the author's 1999 book Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals, which tentatively identified eleven universals pertaining to human emotions. The paper probes some of those "emotional universals" further, especially in relation to 'laughing', 'crying', and 'pain'. At the same time, the author continues her campaign against pseudo-universals, focussing in particular on anthropological and philosophical discourse of "suffering". The paper argues for Christian origins of the concept of "suffering" lexically embodied in European languages, and contrasts it with the Buddhist concept of 'dukkha' usually rendered in Anglophone discussions of Buddhism with the word suffering.
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Language and Culture
dc.title"Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume1
dc.date.issued2014
local.identifier.absfor200405 - Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9803255xPUB858
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationWierzbicka, Anna, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage149
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage173
local.identifier.doi10.1075/ijolc.1.2.02wie
local.identifier.absseo950201 - Communication Across Languages and Culture
dc.date.updated2022-09-04T08:18:09Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85041192417
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