What is it about?
Is is about how fear expressions have become pragmatic devices in language use and the psychological basis of the pragmatic change.
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Why is it important?
It links constructions to human emotion and indicates the embodied nature of linguistic conceptualization.
Perspectives
The study takes a crosslinguistic approach and shows universal tendencies in the emotion-based pragmatic change being examined.
Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
University of Oregon
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This page is a summary of: The apprehensive: Fear as endophoric evidence and its pragmatics in English, Mandarin, and Russian, Journal of Pragmatics, March 2012, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.01.009.
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