EMOTIONS AND BODILY SENSATIONS IN JAVANESE

Abstract

This study investigates emotions – cognitively-based feelings – and body in Javanese. It focuses on whether speakers of Javanese can refer to their body – bodily sensations – to talk about emotions. It is a qualitative study whose corpora were Javanese sentences containing emotions and body part terms in some published works. The results of data analysis show that in Javanese, emotions can be described via bodily sensations.