Exploring the Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters

This book offers an in—depth, cross—cultural and transdisciplinary discussion of the translatability of social emotions. The contributors are leading philosophers, semioticians, anthropologists, communication and translation theorists from Europe, America and Australia. Part I explores the translatability of emotions as a culturally embedded social behaviour that requires a contextualized interpretation of their origins and development in different social and cultural settings. These studie...