[Daviscalendar-list] TODAY: Russian Mentality through the Mirror of Language

[Davis Center Calendar of Events]

Dear colleagues,

Please note our special Literature and Culture Seminar to be held TODAY 
in our usual room at the Davis Center:


*Wednesday, October 10*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
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/"//Russian Mentality through the Mirror of Language"/
Valentina Apresjan, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Russian State 
University of Humanities**
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm

Valentina Apresjan, a Regional Fellow at the Davis Center and a Senior 
Researcher at the Institute of Russian Language in Moscow, examines 
Russian cultural mythology, stereotypes, and emotional and spiritual 
introspection through their reflection in the Russian language, seeking 
to reconstruct the Russian linguistic model of emotions.  Her work 
examines how the resulting model is related (or opposed) to  1)  
stereotypes and introspection found in the Russian culture, especially 
literature; 2) images and stereotypes that people of other languages and 
cultures (in particular, Americans) have of Russian emotions and 
mentality ("Russian mentality in the eye of the beholder"); and 3) the 
corresponding linguistic model of emotions in the English language.  Her 
talk will also consider certain related fields of emotion studies (such 
as psychology, physiology, neuroscience), as they provide a valuable 
insight both into the similarities and differences between the 
linguistic model of emotions and their scientific counterpart, as well 
as into the basis for similarity and variation in conceptions of 
emotions across different languages and cultures.
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