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11 - Anger Metaphors across Languages: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

By
Zoltán Kövecses ,
Veronika Szelid ,
Eszter Nucz ,
Olga Blanco-Carrión ,
Elif Arica Akkök  and
Réka Szabó
Edited by
Roberto R. Heredia  and
Anna B. Cieślicka
Zoltán Kövecses
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University
Veronika Szelid
Affiliation:
Szent Margit Gimnázium
Eszter Nucz
Affiliation:
Corvinus University of Budapest
Olga Blanco-Carrión
Affiliation:
Universidad de Córdoba
Elif Arica Akkök
Affiliation:
Ankara University
Réka Szabó
Affiliation:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Roberto R. Heredia
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University
Anna B. Cieślicka
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University
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This chapter studies metaphors for anger in four languages, American English, Spanish, Turkish, and Hungarian from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Our database includes large corpora and standard newspapers and magazines in the four languages for the past 10 years. First, we intend to uncover the most common conceptual metaphors in the respective languages. Second, we discuss the main systematic similarities and differences between the languages regarding the way anger is talked about and conceptualized in the languages under investigation. Given our results, we assess some of the implications of our work for the cross-cultural corpus-based study of metaphor. In particular, we propose a new complex measure of metaphorical salience as a tool to determine the cultural importance of conceptual metaphors.

Keywords: anger metaphor, conceptual metaphor, corpus analysis, metaphorical mappings, metaphorical salience

In the cognitive linguistic view, metaphor is conceptualizing one domain of experience in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Kövecses, 2010). The domain of experience that is used to comprehend another domain is typically more physical, more directly experienced, and better known than the domain we wish to comprehend, which is typically more abstract, less directly experienced, and less known. The more concrete domain is called the source domain and the more abstract one is called the target domain. Domains of experience are represented in the mind as concepts given as mental frames. This is why we talk about conceptual metaphors.

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Bilingual Figurative Language Processing , pp. 341 - 367
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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