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Universal 2016:
- Original
- In all languages, some feelings can be described as “good” and some as “bad” (while some may be viewed as neither “good” nor “bad”).
- Standardized
- Some feelings can be described as “good” and some as “bad” (while some may be viewed as neither “good” nor “bad”).
- Keywords
- sensation, emotion
- 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: 275, 279-282
- Counterexamples
emotion terms which do not imply an evaluation in English: surprise, amazement