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the domain of emotion words on Ifaluk
Author(s) -
LUTZ CATHERINE
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1982.9.1.02a00070
Subject(s) - ethos , meaning (existential) , psychology , cognition , linguistics , contrast (vision) , emotion classification , affective science , domain (mathematical analysis) , emotion work , cognitive psychology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , mathematics , psychotherapist , mathematical analysis , neuroscience
The cognitive organization of the domain of emotion words on the island of Ifaluk is examined. Native speakers define and sort emotion words based on the situation in which the relevant emotion typically occurs. English emotion words, by contrast, are usually organized on physiological principles. Universal dimensions of meaning found in other studies of psychological language and culture are also found here, however, and these dimensions, being themselves multidimensional, are interpreted in light of the Ifalukian ethos, [cognitive anthropology, emotion, ethnopsychology, psychological anthropology, Ifaluk]