Bringing together specialists from linguistics psychology and philosophy the book offers an exciting collection of papers assessing the conceptual representation of emotion and the conceptual relationship between emotion and language. The specific issues addressed include the analyses based on corpus and crosslinguistic methodologies of emotions such as pride guilt hope despair satisfaction fear and anger in a number of languages and how language shapes socialisation practices such as in bilinguals. Finally it provides good examples of the methods from metaphor analysis to experimental studies used to achieve a better understanding of the complexity and multidimensionality of the conceptualisation of emotion and the emotionlanguage relationship.