Shame, embarrassment and guilt: Corpus evidence for the cross-cultural structure of social emotions

• Authors: Karolina Krawczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparison of three interrelated emotional categories of shame, embarrassment and guilt in two different cultural settings of individualistic societies, as represented here by Britain and America, and a collectivist society, such as Poland. The conceptual field of SHAME is operationalized through its three near-synonymous adjectival exponents, "ashamed"/"zawstydzony", "embarrassed"/"zażenowany", and "guilty"/"winny". Drawing on relevant research in social and cognitive psychology as well as linguistics, the present study applies advanced quantitative corpus-based methodology to reconstruct the cultural and conceptual profiles of the three emotions.

Keywords

EN

social emotions; near-synonymy; corpus-based; multifactorial usage-feature analysis; multivariate statistics

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 441-475

Dates

received

2014-05-25

revised

2014-09-09

accepted

2014-09-22

online

2014-11-14

Contributors

author

Karolina Krawczak

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2014-0023