Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. The conceptualisation of emotions across cultures: national character through time -- "Sadness" and "anger" in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called "basic human emotions" -- The cultural dynamics of "national character": The case of the new Russians -- Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to H. Mondry and J. Taylor -- Omoiyari as a core Japanese value: Japanese-style empathy? -- Sound symbolic emotion words in Japanese -- Cultural variation in the conceptualisation of emotions: A historical study -- II. Different approaches to basic emotions: anger and fear -- Are there any emotion-specific metaphors? -- The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish -- Red dogs and rotten mealies: How Zulus talk about anger -- The conceptualisation of the domain of FEAR in Modern Greek -- Go to the devil: Some metaphors we curse by -- III. Expressing emotions across languages: grammar and discourse -- The conceptualisation of emotional causality by means of prepositional phrases -- On emotions that one can "immerse into", "fall into" and "come to": the semantics of a few Russian prepositional constructions -- The ideology of honour, respect, and emotion in Tagalog -- Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy -- The language of emotion: An analysis of Dholuo on the basis of Grace Ogot's novel Miaha -- TIRED and EMOTIONAL - On the semantics and pragmatics of emotion verb complementation -- Index.