Happiness Metaphors

Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg di Universitas Monash, 2017.

Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg di Universitas Monash, 2017. Source: Private collection.

Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, a PhD candidate in linguistics at Monash University talks about the nuance of near synonyms used to express happiness in Indonesian.


What are the different words used to express happiness in Indonesian? How are the different words used in metaphors? How do their different meanings illustrate different understandings of what happiness might be? Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg explains.

 






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