Cultural universals: Measuring the semantic structure of emotion terms in English and Japanese

AUTOR(ES)

Romney, A. Kimball

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

Research is presented on the semantic structure of 15 emotion terms as measured by judged-similarity tasks for monolingual English-speaking and monolingual and bilingual Japanese subjects. A major question is the relative explanatory power of a single shared model for English and Japanese versus culture-specific models for each language. The data support a shared model for the semantic structure of emotion terms even though some robust and significant differences are found between English and Japanese structures. The Japanese bilingual subjects use a model more like English when performing tasks in English than when performing the same task in Japanese.

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