title: Cultural universals: measuring the semantic structure of emotion terms in English and Japanese.
abstract: Research is presented on the semantic structure of 15 emotion terms as measured by judged-similarity tasks for monolingual English-speaking and monolingual and bilingual Japanese subjects. A major question is the relative explanatory power of a single shared model for English and Japanese versus culture-specific models for each language. The data support a shared model for the semantic structure of emotion terms even though some robust and significant differences are found between English and Japanese structures. The Japanese bilingual subjects use a model more like English when performing tasks in English than when performing the same task in Japanese.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-5100, USA. akromney@uci.edu
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Romney
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Rusch
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004644:Emotions; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008960:Models, Psychological; D019303:Multilingualism; D012660:Semantics; D014481:United States