Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation (Hardcover)

Veronika Szelid

ISBN 10: 3110735490 / ISBN 13: 9783110735499

Verlag: De Gruyter, Berlin, 2024

Beschreibung

Hardcover. 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. Anger is a basic emotion rooted in largely universal bodily experience, yet its conceptualization is by no means universal, languages can differ in how it is metaphorically understood. Drawing on a wide selection of comparable linguistic data from d Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation (Hardcover)
• Verlag: De Gruyter, Berlin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3110735490
• ISBN-13: 9783110735499
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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