«Bringing together specialists from linguistics psychology and philosophy the book offers an
exciting collection of papers assessing the conceptual representation of emotion and the
conceptual relationship between emotion and language. The specific issues addressed include the
analyses based on corpus and cross-linguistic methodologies of emotions such as pride guilt
hope despair satisfaction fear and anger in a number of languages and how language shapes
socialisation practices such as in bilinguals. Finally it provides good examples of the
methods - from metaphor analysis to experimental studies - used to achieve a better
understanding of the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the conceptualisation of emotion
and the emotion-language relationship. Researchers and advanced students are likely to find
this book an important reference work.» (Vanda L. Zammuner University of Padova Italy)
