Mówiąc o uczuciach: między naturą i kulturą. O podstawach konceptualizacji uczuć w kontekście semantycznych badań porównawczych
Speaking about emotions: between nature and culture. The bases for conceptualizing emotions in he context of comparative semantic research

Summary/Abstract: The article surveys the most important methodological proposals put forward by researchers in the conceptualization of emotions. The approaches presented, deriving from psychology, cultural anthropology and linguistics, are considered with a view to the question of the relationship between the influence of nature and culture on emotion judgments in various languages. Examples include the categories of anger, fear, joy and shame. Attention is devoted to the question of what in linguistic pictures of feelings is a “cultural artefact”, and what derives from general experience or the physical constitution of humans. The author points to the problematic nature of the distinction between the relative and the universal in linguistic conceptualization of emotions. She proposes to meticulously study emotional complexes hidden behind the names of emotions in various languages, and to compare them in a broader cultural and psychological context.

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