Zoltan Kovecses

Metaphor and Emotion (eBook, PDF)

Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511036378
• Artikelnr.: 38190512

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language and emotion concepts
2. Metaphor of emotion
3. Emotion metaphors: are they unique to the emotions?
4. Events and emotions: the subcategorization of emotions
5. The force of emotion
6. Emotions and relationships
7. Folk versus expert theories of emotion
8. Universality in the conceptualization of emotion
9. Cultural variation in the conceptualization of emotion
10. Emotion language: a new synthesis.