ABSTRACT

This chapter examines various examples and trends for research on emotional expressions within cultural contexts. Examples range from the visceral to the iconic, including wailing and howling, terminology for emotion categories, metaphor/metonomy, and emoticons. The methodological approaches for understanding these examples discussed here include participant observation, spontaneous evocation of embodied memory, metalanguage, corpus analysis, text analysis, big data, and examinations of global flows in contexts of translation and language learning. Possible futures in this field of inquiry may emerge with the increase of globalizing forces, and as well, the expansion of research on embodiment.