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The body in expressions of emotion: Kuot

Author(s) -

Eva Lindström

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

pragmatics and cognition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1569-9943

pISSN - 0929-0907

DOI - 10.1075/pc.10.12.08lin

Subject(s) - emotive , body language , new guinea , linguistics , human body , expression (computer science) , psychology , communication , word (group theory) , history , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , ethnology , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language

This contribution examines the use of body terms in expressions of emotion in Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It is found that expressions involving the word for ‘stomach’, daləp, correspond mainly to what we would consider to be psychological states, while expressions making use of neip ‘skin; body’ are largely concerned with physical states. Some other body parts also form part of emotive expressions

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