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This article examines the ‘Adj+PP’ construction in the English-Italian language pair (e.g., /) with the aim of identifying the kinaesthetic embodied schemas that motivate the language of emotions. The analysis of corpus data highlights the interplay between culture and mind, and the cross-linguistic comparison offers some interesting observations that appear to undermine some stereotypes about the way in which emotions are conceived of in the two cultures. Comparative semantics foregrounds the non-diagrammatic rendition in the translation of emotion language and allows for typological hypotheses about cultural cognition and the connection between Talmy’s dichotomy of manner-framed and path-framed languages.

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Emotions travelling across cultures
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Keyword(s): conceptualization of emotions; cultural cognition; kinaesthetic embodied schemas; Talmy’s typology

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