Metaphors of Happiness in English and Russian

Andrea Csillag

doi:10.1515/rjes-2016-0012

Abstract

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 emotion happiness and its metaphors in English and Russian.

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Metaphors of Happiness in English and Russian

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