Course Details
Course offered Winter 2007
H A&S 397 A: Ways of Feeling: Expressions of Emotions Across Languages and Cultures
H A&S 397 A: Ways of Feeling: Expressions of Emotions Across Languages and Cultures
SLN 13659 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students
Limit: 15 students
This course is cross listed with SLAV 426
Universal and culture specific aspects of linguistic expression of emotion. Are there feelings that all people share independent of language, culture, gender, and race? Examination of the meaning and form of emotion words in different languages, facial expressions, cultural attitudes to emotion and emotional behavior, and gender-specific emotional expressions.