37.2601, Books: Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson (2026)

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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson (2026)


Title: Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing   80
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.80

Author(s): Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Paul A. Wilson

eBook ISBN:  9789027244253 Pages:  404 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244253 Pages:  404 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244253 Pages:  404 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
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Hardback ISBN:  9789027232007 Pages:  404 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027232007 Pages:  404 Price: U.S. $ 169.00

Abstract:

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages
offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals.
This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and
contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising
emotions.
The book combines a corpus-based linguistic analysis of emotion terms
with empirical studies using both questionnaire-based data and online
sorting tasks. It identifies several distinct clusters in both
languages, such as "sadness/ grief" and "joy/ happiness/love," but
also highlights divergences. For instance, the Polish concept of żal
(often translated as regret or sorrow, but with unique connotations of
grievance and longing) forms a cluster without a direct English
equivalent, suggesting a distinct emotional nuance in Polish culture.
The book builds upon existing psychological theories of emotion,
particularly those emphasising the role of language in shaping
emotional experience (constructionist theories). It also engages with
cross-cultural psychology research on emotion recognition and
expression, providing a linguistic lens to complement existing
behavioural studies. By meticulously comparing the semantic fields of
emotion words, the book enriches our understanding of how language
both reflects and influences our emotional worlds, offering valuable
contributions to psycholinguistics, cultural psychology, cognitive and
corpus linguistics as well as to translation studies.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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