Universal #2029
Legacy number: 2029
| Number | 2023 |
| Original | It also appears that the main universal mode for describing cognitively based feelings is in terms of a comparison, that is, via LIKE, and that in this, the main human strategy for talking about feelings is analogous to the main human strategy for talking about colours. |
| Standardized | The main universal mode for describing cognitively based feelings is in terms of a comparison, that is, via LIKE, and in this, the main human strategy for talking about feelings is analogous to the main human strategy for talking about colours. |
| Keywords | emotion, sensation, cognition, colour, metaphor |
| Domain | lexicon |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | "working hypothesis ... on evidence gleaned from both cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies" |
| Source | Wierzbicka 1999: 305 |
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