Specifically, in the case of emotion concepts, such as. In durham, he will conduct research into the way metaphors are used in discourse. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social interaction zoltan kovecses many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology i. Achilles must share some features with lions in order for us to be able to use the word lion as a metaphor for achilles. A more detailed account of the goals and methodology is.
A practical introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in. Kovecses 2010through his work metaphor, language and culture referred universality to conceptual metaphor rather than metaphorical expressions. Language, culture and body in human feeling by zoltan kovecses, 2000. His results that the same conceptual metaphor could be found in a great number of different languages are in line with many other linguists kovecses, 2010. Language, culture, and body in human feeling by zoltan kovecses 4. Murphy university of illinois, 405 north mathews avenue, urbana, il 61801, usa. This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by stressing how human emotions are to a large extent constructed from individuals embodied experiences in different cultural settings. A practical introduction, second edition zoltan kovecses combining uptodate scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, metaphor. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the time as space metaphor and the event structure metaphor. This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind.
Recently, in fact, this culturalist perspective on conceptual metaphor has emerged even more forcefully in cognitive linguistics cf. This research analyzed the types of metaphor and the meaning of metaphor in edgar allan poes poems. The emotionisliquid metaphor in english and vietnamese. The same mapping also underlies many other expressions e. The author tries to reveal how people talk about emotions and more importantly.
This second edition includes two new chapterson metaphors in discourse and metaphor and emotion along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the. Though the books emphasis is firmly on linguistic analysis, metaphor and emotion will also be rewarding and suggestive for philosophers, psychologists and anyone eager to look in more detail at the relative place of language, body and culture in the constitution of. Metaphor is part of figurative language that compares one thing to another. Prior to the appearance of this book, metaphors we live by has been a mustread in introductory semantics and cognitive linguistics courses. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read metaphor.
Pdf this is a cognitive linguistic account of the language used about. B is part of another emotion concept a see, for example, kovecses 1986, 1990, 1991a. The study of emotion concepts was given scant attention in research in the past. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. So a statement like i defended my argument can be explained by a conceptual metaphor argument is war, where argument is the target and war is the source. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social. Kovecses, 2003, political science lakoff and wehling, 2012, cognitive psychology crawford, 2009. Metaphorandemotion are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or. This second edition includes two new chapterson metaphors in discourse and metaphor and emotion along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent. Based on lakoffs conceptual metaphor theory and kovecses basic emotion terms, this pilot research found that english and vietnamese share the conceptual metaphor emotion is liquid. This is an interesting theoretical question in itself because it raises the more general issue of the nature of the relationship between metaphor and culture. The detailed analysis of emotions from the cognitive. He is currently working on the language and conceptualization of emotions, crosscultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Metaphor cited as the collins cobuild metaphor dictionary in this volume has examples of metaphors, such as the following metaphorical expressions in the example sentences or phrases are italicized.
Metaphor and emotion zoltan kovecses eotvos lorand university, budapest hungary email. The interplay of metaphor and emotion has been an object of interest in. Zoltan kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. Emotion concepts concentrates its focus on the study of emotion where many disciplines have fallen short in their definitions. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biologicalphysiological processes in the human body and of.
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the universality of emotion metaphorical conceptualization and the dominant pattern in english and persian based on kovecsess 2003 model for linguistic expression of metaphor. Studies in emotion and social interaction secondseries serieseditors keithoatley. Metaphor becomes the subject of interest for many researchers in recent decades. A practical introduction, edition 2 ebook written by zoltan kovecses. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Metaphor and emotion contains much that is interesting, even intriguing. What is the role of metaphor in the naive or folk understanding of anger.
Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social interaction 9780521541466. The examination of emotion metaphors, such as the ones above, raises the issue of. Colours in everyday metaphoric language of persian speakers. A comparative study on basic emotion conceptual metaphors. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Their hamburg metaphor database contains examples of metaphorical expressions in german and french, which are mapped to senses from eurowordnet 4 and annotated with source target domain mappings taken from the master metaphor list lakoff et al. Lakoff and johnson 1980, kovecses presents case studies of the concepts of anger. Thus,forexample,the english word emotion is anything but universal. For most of us, metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by saying that one is the other, as in he is a lion.
Emotion concepts are composed of a number of parts. As is well known, zoltan kovecses is a very productive and influential scientist in metaphor studies. Kovecses illustrates through detailed crosslinguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect widespread metaphorical patterns of thought. The work of lakoff 1987, lakoff and kovecses 1987, and kovecses 1990, 2000a, 2002 on anger situates it within the bounds of physiological effects of an emotion stand for the emotion, thus implying a universal form of physiological embodiment for anger. For each basic emotion term, the proportion of the emotion is liquid expressions to the total of emotion tokens was relatively small. Metaphor and the folk understanding of anger springerlink. Metaphor and emotion by zoltan kovecses waterstones. Pdf this is a cognitive linguistic account of the language used about emotions and the structure and content of emotion concepts find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. This second edition includes two new chapterson metaphors in discourse and metaphor and emotion along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised. Figurative language in anger expressions in tunisian.
Kovecses 2000, many of the examples he uses in metaphor are emotion related. Combining uptodate scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, metaphor. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading metaphor and emotion. Of course, this is not to say that this book is about emotional. Metaphor and emotion chapter 21 the cambridge handbook. In this sense, folk theories of emotion are reconstructions of lay views that can be. Abstract metaphor becomes the subject of interest for many researchers in recent decades. Folk theories of emotion can be reconstructed, for instance, on the basis of language used about the emotions. A practical introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. Language, culture, and body in human feeling zoltan kovecses frontmatter more information. Folk and expert theories of emotion and the disappearance. A comparision of emotion metaphors linkedin slideshare.
Studies language and social interaction, distributed cognition, and conceptual metaphor theory. Language, culture, and body in human feeling, cambridge. This chapter briefly describes the general goals of the book, introduces the most fundamental features of the methodology that is employed to achieve these goals, and gives an outline of the structure of the book. Fourth, metaphor is a conscious and deliberate use of words, and you must have a special talent to be able to do it and do it well. The interaction between metaphor and metonymy in emotion category. A practical introduction zoltan kovecses combining uptodate scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, metaphor. Thibodeau and boroditsky, 2011 and neuroscience azizzadeh and damasio, 2008. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies. These similarities make it understandable why kovecses and lakoff 1987 have postulated a general metonymic principle. Kovecses also add that what makes the metaphorical identify of.