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Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: A Semantic Perspective

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Everyday Conceptions of Emotion

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To study something, we have to have some way of identifying and delimiting the object of our investigations. This initial identification and delimitation may be tentative, provisional, and inexact. Only after a certain part of reality has been thoroughly researched will we be able to “carve this part at its joints”.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, 0200, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

    Anna Wierzbicka

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  1. Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    James A. Russell

  2. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    José-Miguel Fernández-Dols

  3. Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Antony S. R. Manstead

  4. Department of Anthropology & School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    J. C. Wellenkamp

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Wierzbicka, A. (1995). Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: A Semantic Perspective. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_2

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