17.1607, Qs: Standard Spanish Newscast; Emotion Nouns

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Subject: 17.1607, Qs: Standard Spanish Newscast; Emotion Nouns

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1)
Date: 25-May-2006
From: Tania Granadillo < taniag at u.arizona.edu >
Subject: Standard Spanish Newscast 

2)
Date: 24-May-2006
From: Fuhui Hsieh < hsiehfh at ms64.hinet.net >
Subject: Emotion Nouns 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 22:22:07
From: Tania Granadillo < taniag at u.arizona.edu >
Subject: Standard Spanish Newscast 
 


I am looking for a reference as to what is the standard dialect used in North American 
Spanish newscast.  I seem to recall having seen an article related to this claiming that 
Mexican spanish is the preferred but I can't seem to locate the reference.  Any help 
appreciated.

Will post a summary if there's enough responses.  Thanks! 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


	
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 22:22:09
From: Fuhui Hsieh < hsiehfh at ms64.hinet.net >
Subject: Emotion Nouns 

	

Hi, linguists:

As pointed out by many scholars (in particular, Wierzbicka), in many
languages, such as German, there is no word that denote the concept that is
equivalent to the English word 'emotion'. In our recent research, we have
found that in some Formosan languages, there is no emotion nouns, i.e.,
there is no nouns that denote the concepts that are equivalent to the
English 'anger', 'happiness', 'fear' and so on. In other words, in these
languages, emotional concepts are encoded as verbs only (and few
nominalized nominals, denoting an emotional event).

We are wondering whether such a phenomenon also exists in other language.
 
Many thanks. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Typology
 



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