The same mapping also underlies many other expressions e. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies. A practical introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Recently, in fact, this culturalist perspective on conceptual metaphor has emerged even more forcefully in cognitive linguistics cf. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading metaphor and emotion. Metaphor and the folk understanding of anger springerlink.
Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social interaction 9780521541466. Murphy university of illinois, 405 north mathews avenue, urbana, il 61801, usa. Thus,forexample,the english word emotion is anything but universal. 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. 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. 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.
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. A practical introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. Emotion concepts concentrates its focus on the study of emotion where many disciplines have fallen short in their definitions. Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology. Folk theories of emotion can be reconstructed, for instance, on the basis of language used about the emotions. B is part of another emotion concept a see, for example, kovecses 1986, 1990, 1991a.
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. A more detailed account of the goals and methodology is. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. For each basic emotion term, the proportion of the emotion is liquid expressions to the total of emotion tokens was relatively small. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. The examination of emotion metaphors, such as the ones above, raises the issue of. In this sense, folk theories of emotion are reconstructions of lay views that can be. The emotionisliquid metaphor in english and vietnamese. Lakoff and johnson 1980, kovecses presents case studies of the concepts of anger. A practical introduction, edition 2 ebook written by zoltan kovecses. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social.
Kovecses 2000, many of the examples he uses in metaphor are emotion related. Language, culture, and body in human feeling by zoltan kovecses 4. Prior to the appearance of this book, metaphors we live by has been a mustread in introductory semantics and cognitive linguistics courses. Achilles must share some features with lions in order for us to be able to use the word lion as a metaphor for achilles. 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 interplay of metaphor and emotion has been an object of interest in. Metaphor and emotion contains much that is interesting, even intriguing.
Studies language and social interaction, distributed cognition, and conceptual metaphor theory. 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. Specifically, in the case of emotion concepts, such as. A comparision of emotion metaphors linkedin slideshare.
Folk and expert theories of emotion and the disappearance. In durham, he will conduct research into the way metaphors are used in discourse. Metaphorandemotion are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or. 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. Metaphor and emotion chapter 21 the cambridge handbook. A practical introduction, second edition zoltan kovecses combining uptodate scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, 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. Of course, this is not to say that this book is about emotional. 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. 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. Kovecses, 2003, political science lakoff and wehling, 2012, cognitive psychology crawford, 2009. Studies in emotion and social interaction secondseries serieseditors keithoatley. Combining uptodate scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, metaphor. 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.
This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider crosslinguistic and crosscultural perspective. These similarities make it understandable why kovecses and lakoff 1987 have postulated a general metonymic principle. The detailed analysis of emotions from the cognitive. Metaphor and emotion zoltan kovecses eotvos lorand university, budapest hungary email. The interaction between metaphor and metonymy in emotion category. As is well known, zoltan kovecses is a very productive and influential scientist in metaphor studies. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the time as space metaphor and the event structure metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapterson metaphors in discourse and metaphor and emotion along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent. Abstract metaphor becomes the subject of interest for many researchers in recent decades. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read metaphor. 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. Zoltan kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. 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. This research analyzed the types of metaphor and the meaning of metaphor in edgar allan poes poems.
Kovecses also add that what makes the metaphorical identify of. 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. 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. Pdf this is a cognitive linguistic account of the language used about. It regards metaphor as a mapping from a source conceptual domain to a target domain.
Colours in everyday metaphoric language of persian speakers. Kovecses 2010through his work metaphor, language and culture referred universality to conceptual metaphor rather than metaphorical expressions. Emotion concepts are composed of a number of parts. Language, culture, and body in human feeling zoltan kovecses frontmatter more information. Figurative language in anger expressions in tunisian. Language, culture, and body in human feeling studies in emotion and social interaction zoltan kovecses.
The study of emotion concepts was given scant attention in research in the past. 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. A comparative study on basic emotion conceptual metaphors. Metaphor is part of figurative language that compares one thing to another. Kovecses illustrates through detailed crosslinguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect widespread metaphorical patterns of thought. Thibodeau and boroditsky, 2011 and neuroscience azizzadeh and damasio, 2008.