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The language of love
Zoltâan Kèovecses

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The language of love

Bucknell University Press (1988)
9780838751251
96 pages
Dewey 420/.141
LC Classification PE1585 .K68 1988
LC Control No. 87047724

Subject

  • Emotions - Terminology
  • English Language - Semantics
  • English Language - Spoken English
  • Love - Terminology

Plot

Arguing that romantic love is neither an undefinable mystic experience nor a phenomenon reducible to a labeled set of reactions, this study explores love's complexity and structure through analysis of the conventionalized linguistic expressions that speakers of English use to talk about it.

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