Metaphors of Happiness in English and Russian

According to Ekman et al. (1972), happiness is one of the six universal basic human emotions. Kövecses (2000) claims that certain aspects of the conceptualization of emotions are universal or nearuniversal. The paper compares linguistic expressions to discuss the question of the universality of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Csillag Andrea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-12-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0012