Subject: new book : cognitive linguistics

angeliki athanasiadou and elzbieta tabakowska ( editors ) speaking of emotions conceptualisation and expression 1998 . xxii , 444 pages cloth dm 198 , - / approx . us 124 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 015767 - 5 cognitive linguistics research 10 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york by illustrating the diverging research methods and procedures possible within the cognitive-linguistic scene , this volume reveals the contribution cognitive linguistics offers to the study of emotions . at the same time , the papers contained in this volume confirm one of the basic assumptions of cognitive linguistics , viz . that conceptualization is governed by ecological , environmental , culture-specific and universal factors . in addition to its great empirical value , the volume is outstanding in that it represents a wide spectrum of cognitive trends so that it testifies to the pluralism within the cognitive-linguistic paradigm : metaphorical-metonymical lakoffian approach , semantic primitives approach , semasiological-structure approach . contents angeliki athanasiadou , the conceptualization of the domain of fear in modern greek * stefan grondelaers and dirk geeraerts , vagueness as a euphemistic strategy * gabor gyori , cultural variation in the conceptualization of emotions : a historical study * rie hasada , onomatopoeic emotion words in japanese * zoltan kovecses , are there any emotion-specific metaphors ? * agnieska mikolajczuk , the metonymic and metaphorical conceptualization of anger in polish * henrietta mondry and john taylor , the cultural dynamics of ` national character ' : the case of the new russians * anna mostovaja , on emotions that one can ` immerse into ' , ` fall into ' and ` come to ' : the semantics of a few russian prepositional constructions * gary palmer and rick brown , the ideology of honor , respect , and emotion in tagalog * gunter radden , the conceptualization of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases * mechthild reh , the language of emotion in dholuo : an analysis on the basis of grace ogot 's novel ` miaha ' * elzbieta tabakowska , go to the devil : some metaphors we curse by * john taylor and t . mbense , red dogs and rotton mealies : how zulus talk about anger * catherine travis , omoiyari as a core japanese value : japanese - style empathy ? * p . werth , tired and emotional : on the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation * anna wierzbicka , ` sadness ' and ` anger ' in russian : the non-universality of the so-called ` basic human emotions ' * index _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : mouton @ degruyter . de this and further publications can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . de
