Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling - Couverture rigide

Kövecses, Zoltán

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521641632 ISBN 13 : 9780521641630

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Zoltn Kvecses

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biological-physiological processes in the human body and of the body interacting with the external world. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an integrated system. Kovecses convincingly shows how this integrated system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.

Revue de presse

'I deem Metaphor and Emotion to be a substantial work ... I believe that any literary-linguistic scholar interested in cognition, emotion or metaphor will find this work hugely rewarding.' Language and Literature

'Metaphor and Emotion contains much that is interesting, even intriguing ... Though the book's 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 human emotions.' Philosophical Writings

'... an informative, readable and at times entertaining overview of metaphor and culture.' The Psychologist

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521641632
• ISBN 13: 9780521641630
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 242