Source: Lomas (2016), "Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography," via SciSpace mirror
- Author: Tim Lomas (University of East London, School of Psychology)
- Publication: The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(5), 546–558 (2016) — accessed via a SciSpace-hosted PDF mirror (
scispace.com) of the author's own accepted manuscript, not the publisher's copy of record - Date: published 2016; accessed 2026-09-07
- URL: https://scispace.com/pdf/towards-a-positive-cross-cultural-lexicography-enriching-our-4fhwtxf3ox.pdf
- Type: primary (direct read of the paper's own text) — but a self-archived accepted-manuscript copy, not the version of record; the PDF's own first page states "This article may not exactly replicate the final version published... It is not the copy of record"
- Accessed: 2026-09-07
Extract
- This is the full paper: "Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 'untranslatable' words pertaining to wellbeing." Abstract confirms 216 terms assembled via "quasi-systematic search," organised by grounded theory into three top-level categories — feelings (positive feelings, complex feelings), relationships (intimacy, pro-sociality), and character (personal resources, spirituality) — matching the categorisation already on file as a secondary-source data point (see Iktsuarpok).
- The paper's own treatment of iktsuarpok, directly read and quoted verbatim: under the "Complex feelings" subsection (itself under top-level "Feelings"), in a passage grouping words about hope/anticipation with a "co-valenced" (Lazarus 2003) blend of savouring and fear: "In Inuit, iktsuarpok refers to the anticipation one feels when waiting for someone, whereby one keeps going outside to check if they have arrived." This is the paper's entire treatment of the word — one sentence, no further citation given for it, no dialect specified (consistent with the rest of the popular literature on file), and no separate table/glossary entry found elsewhere in the document beyond this one running-text mention.
- The gloss matches this project's already-filed popular gloss essentially verbatim, adding no new semantic content and no primary lexicographic grounding of its own — Lomas's paper is compiling from existing popular/secondary sources ("culled from across the world's languages"), not independently attesting the word against an Inuktitut-language primary source.
- Language attribution given is "Inuit" (not further specified) — same generic, non-dialect-specific attribution as the rest of the popular literature already on file.
Gaps
- Still does not resolve which specific Inuit/Inuktitut dialect the word belongs to, nor does it cite Thibert's dictionary or any other primary source for its own claim.
- This is a self-archived preprint/accepted-manuscript copy rather than the publisher's version of record; the wording checked here (a short, unremarkable descriptive sentence) is very unlikely to have changed between manuscript and print, but this is noted per this project's standing caution on mirror-copy fidelity.