Metaphors of ANGER across Languages Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation : Volume 1: From Akan to Italian

Zoltan Kövecses

ISBN 10: 3110735490 / ISBN 13: 9783110735499

Edité par De Gruyter, De Gruyter Mouton, 2024

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Neuware - Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions. Although it has received considerable scholarly attention in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, a basic question has still remained unresolved: why do variations in the folk model of anger exist across languages if it is indeed a basic emotion rooted in largely universal bodily experience By drawing on a wide selection of comparable linguistic data from dozens of languages (including a number of less-researched languages), this volume provides the most comprehensive account of what is universal and what is variable in the folk model of anger - and why. It also investigates the role that metonymies might play in the emergence of anger-related metaphors and in what ways context influences or shapes anger metaphors and thereby the resulting folk model of anger. No such volume exists in the (cognitive) linguistic literature on anger - or on emotions for that matter. The book is thus an essential contribution to the study of anger and will serve as basic reading for any researcher interested in how the conceptualization of anger is constructed via the interplay of bodily experience, language and the larger cultural context.

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• Titre: Metaphors of ANGER across Languages Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation : Volume 1: From Akan to Italian
• Éditeur: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Mouton
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3110735490
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110735499
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu

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Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions. Although it has received considerable scholarly attention in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, a basic question has still remained unresolved: why do variations in the folk model of anger exist across languages if it is indeed a basic emotion rooted in largely universal bodily experience?

By drawing on a wide selection of comparable linguistic data from dozens of languages (including a number of less-researched languages), this volume provides the most comprehensive account of what is universal and what is variable in the folk model of anger - and why. It also investigates the role that metonymies might play in the emergence of anger-related metaphors and in what ways context influences or shapes anger metaphors and thereby the resulting folk model of anger.

No such volume exists in the (cognitive) linguistic literature on anger - or on emotions for that matter. The book is thus an essential contribution to the study of anger and will serve as basic reading for any researcher interested in how the conceptualization of anger is constructed via the interplay of bodily experience, language and the larger cultural context.

À propos de l?auteur

Zoltán Kövecses; Réka Benczes; Veronika Szelid, all Budapest, Hungary.