27.3136, Books: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures: Goddard, Ye (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:36:57
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures: Goddard, Ye (eds.)

 


Title: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 84  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.84 


Editor: Cliff Goddard
Editor: Zhengdao Ye

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027266958 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
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Abstract:

In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have
attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy,
medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic
perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and
thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures, and seeks to answer
this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to
“happiness” and “pain” in many languages and in different religious and
cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of the
expressions in question, but also provide extensive cultural
contextualization, showing how these meanings are truly cultural.
Methodologically, while in full agreement with the view of many social
scientists and economists that self-reports are the bedrock of happiness
research, the volume presents a body of evidence highlighting the problem of
translation and showing how local concepts of “happiness” and “pain” can be
understood without an Anglo bias. The languages examined include (Mandarin)
Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Japanese, Koromu (a Papua New
Guinean language), and Latin American Spanish. 

Originally published in International Journal of Language and Culture Vol. 1:2
(2014).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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