This paper explores sort humor 'black humor', a key concept in Danish conversational
humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes …

According to a new global narrative, the Danes are the happiest people in the world. This
paper takes a critical look at the international media discourse of “happiness”, tracing its …

The word samfundssind, roughly “community spirit” came to be a keyword of the moment in
the Danish discourses of the global coronavirus pandemic. In an era of acute dangers to …

This paper examines the Danish language of aesthetics from the perspective of four
untranslatable adjectives: pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker. These words are frequent and salient …

This article explicates the eighteenth-century English concept of “chastity” through analyzing
the noun chastity, the adjective chaste and the adverb chastely in the Corpus of Late Modern …

This study demonstrates that the polysemous Anglo cultural keyword, fair, embedded in a
formulaic phrase, can invoke concurrent and competing cultural scripts. It also demonstrates …

1. Introduction and background 2. Semantic components and templates for emotion
meanings: illustrations from English 2.1. Common templates for English emotion adjectives …