Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

This volume sheds light on the complex nature of affect expression by investigating its various linguistic, cultural, and social manifestations. Divided into two parts, it first explores affective phenomena from cognitive, comparative, and cross-linguistic perspectives, offering novel insights into the conceptualisations and expression of affect, i.e., emotions, moods, feelings in languages such as Tok Pisin, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, and Romanian....