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The semantics of emotions: Fear and its relatives in English

Anna Wierzbicka Department of Linguistics, The Faculties Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
Pages 359-375 | Published online: 14 Aug 2008

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Pamela Marie Taylor & Yukiko Uchida. (2019) Awe or horror: differentiating two emotional responses to schema incongruence. Cognition and Emotion 33:8, pages 1548-1561.
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Anna Dąbrowska. (2023) Fear is an illness of the brain. A cognitive account of a novel constructive scenario of fear . Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 19:1, pages 71-85.
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Barbara Gawda. (2020) The structure of lay-concepts within the fear spectrum revealed using emotional verbal fluency. Current Psychology 41:5, pages 2950-2965.
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Anna Dąbrowska. 2022. Concepts, Discourses, and Translations. Concepts, Discourses, and Translations 3 20 .
Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij & Irina Mikaelian. (2021) Семантика опасения и русские дискурсивные конструкции того и гляди, чего доброго и не ровён час (по данным корпусов)Semantics of apprehension and the Russian discursive constructions togo i gljadi, čego dobrogo, and ne roven čas: a corpus-based analysis. Russian Linguistics 45:1, pages 7-43.
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DIANE PONTEROTTO. (2016) Motion for emotion: an empirical cross-linguistic study of conceptual construals. Language and Cognition 9:3, pages 383-411.
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Sungbom Lee. (2016) A Contrastive Pragmatic Study on Speech Acts of Expressing Public Indignation in Korean, English and Japanese. Language & Information Society 29:null, pages 267-294.
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Cliff Goddard. (2015) The complex, language-specific semantics of “surprise”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2, pages 291-313.
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Richard A. Shweder, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, Giyoo Hatano, Robert A. LeVine, Hazel R. Markus & Peggy J. Miller. 2007. Handbook of Child Psychology. Handbook of Child Psychology.
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Anna Wierzbicka. (2016) Emotion and Facial Expression: A Semantic Perspective. Culture & Psychology 1:2, pages 227-258.
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Z. Kövecses. 1995. Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. Everyday Conceptions of Emotion 3 15 .
Anna Wierzbicka. (2010) Defining Emotion Concepts. Cognitive Science 16:4, pages 539-581.
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