American Anthropologist

, volume 88 , issue 3 , pages 584-594

Human Emotions: Universal or Culture-Specific?

Anna Wierzbicka ¹

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Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 1986-09-01

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ISSN: 15481433, 00027294

DOI: 10.1525/aa.1986.88.3.02a00030

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Abstract

The search for “fundamental human emotions” has been seriously impeded by the absence of a culture-independent semantic metalanguage. The author proposes a metalanguage based on a postulated set of universal semantic primitives, and shows how language-specific meanings of emotion terms can be captured and how rigorous cross-cultural comparisons of emotion terms can be achieved.

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