The meaning of "happiness" (xingfu) and "emotional pain" (tongku) in Chinese

Zhengdao Ye

doi:10.1075/ijolc.1.2.04ye

The meaning of "happiness" (xingfu) and "emotional pain" (tongku) in Chinese

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Drawing from five Chinese corpora and applying the semantic techniques developed by Natural Semantic Metalanguage researchers, the present study reveals a conceptualization of happiness that is markedly different from that encoded in the English concept of happiness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Happiness and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
Editors	Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
Place of Publication	Amsterdam Holland
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	65-86
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9789027242723
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.1.2.04ye
Publication status	Published - 2016

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The meaning of "happiness" (xingfu) and "emotional pain" (tongku) in Chinese

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