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Universal 2019:

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Universal 2019:

Original
All languages have some “emotion terms” (i.e. terms designating some cognitively based feelings).
Standardized
There are some “emotion terms” (i.e. terms designating some cognitively based feelings).
Keywords
emotion, sensation, cognition
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: 276, 284-286
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    (i) This complements #2024: interjections for “voicing” feelings; terms for “describing” them.(ii) “Specific” emotion terms are unlikely to be universal; but see #2026.

    1. May 2020

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