Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
1. Language and Emotion Concepts......Page 19
Expression and Description......Page 20
Basic Emotion Terms......Page 21
Metaphor and Metonymy......Page 22
The ‘‘Label’’ View......Page 24
The ‘‘Core Meaning’’ View......Page 25
The ‘‘Dimensional’’ View......Page 26
The ‘‘Implicational’’ View......Page 27
The ‘‘Prototype’’ View......Page 28
The ‘‘Social-Constructionist’’ View......Page 31
Some Issues in the Study of Emotion Language......Page 32
The Universality of Emotion Prototypes......Page 33
Are Emotion Metaphors Unique to the Emotions?......Page 34
The Role of Metaphor and Metonymy......Page 35
‘‘Lay Views’’ Versus ‘‘Scientific Theories’’......Page 36
Subcategorizing Emotions......Page 37
2. Metaphors of Emotion......Page 38
Anger Metaphors......Page 39
Fear Metaphors......Page 41
Happiness Metaphors......Page 42
Sadness Metaphors......Page 43
Love Metaphors......Page 44
Lust Metaphors......Page 47
Pride Metaphors......Page 48
Shame Metaphors......Page 50
Conclusion......Page 51
3. Emotion Metaphors......Page 53
Source Domains That Apply to Most Emotion Concepts......Page 54
Source Domains That Apply to Some Emotions......Page 56
Aspects of Emotion Concepts......Page 58
Intensity......Page 59
Passivity......Page 60
Control......Page 61
‘‘Positive–Negative’’ Evaluation......Page 62
Nonphysical Unity......Page 63
Harm......Page 64
Aspects of Emotion and Wierzbicka’s Semantic Universals......Page 65
Emotion-Specific Source Domains......Page 66
Conclusions......Page 67
4. Events and Emotions......Page 69
The Event Structure Metaphor and Emotions......Page 70
The Degree of Overlap Between Events and Emotions......Page 73
The Subcategorization of Emotion......Page 76
Conclusion......Page 78
5. The Force of Emotion......Page 79
The Force Schema......Page 80
Specific-Level Metaphors Focusing on ‘‘Emotion-Response’’......Page 83
Metaphors Focusing on Both Parts of the Emotion Schema......Page 95
Metaphors Mainly Focusing on the ‘‘Cause of Emotion’’......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 103
6. Emotions and Relationships......Page 105
Experiences as Objects......Page 106
The Conduit Metaphor......Page 107
Persons as Containers......Page 108
The ‘‘Emotion’’ System......Page 110
Friendship as a Possessed Object......Page 111
Friendship as a Bond......Page 112
Friendship as an Economic Exchange......Page 113
The ‘‘Complex Systems’’ Metaphor......Page 115
Friendship as a Structured Object......Page 117
Friendship as a Machine......Page 119
Friendship as a Special Implement......Page 121
Friendship as a Living Organism......Page 122
The ‘‘Positive/Negative Evaluation’’ System......Page 124
Friendship as a Valuable Commodity......Page 125
The ‘‘Event’’ System......Page 126
The Metaphorical Structure of Emotions and Human Relationships......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 131
7. Folk Versus Expert Theories of Emotion......Page 132
The Role of Metaphor in Cultural Models......Page 133
Metaphors of Love......Page 140
Metonymies of Love......Page 141
Related Concepts......Page 143
Folk and Expert Theories of Love......Page 144
Emotion Concepts as Cognitive Models......Page 145
Prototypical Cognitive Models and Expert Theories......Page 147
Metaphors and Expert Theories......Page 149
Metonymies and Expert Theories......Page 151
Related Concepts and Expert Theories......Page 152
The Nature of the Relationship......Page 153
Conclusions......Page 155
8. Universality in the Conceptualization of Emotions......Page 157
Emotion Language in English and Hungarian......Page 158
Folk Understandings of Anger and Its Counterparts in Different Languages and Cultures......Page 160
Why the Similarities?......Page 164
English......Page 166
Hungarian......Page 167
Chinese......Page 168
Japanese......Page 170
Other Languages......Page 172
The Structure of the ‘‘Container’’ Metaphors......Page 173
How Do Roughly the Same Metaphors Emerge for Anger and Its Counterparts?......Page 174
Conclusions......Page 179
Cross-Cultural Variation......Page 182
Variation in the Content of Prototypical Cultural Models......Page 184
Broader Cultural Context......Page 185
Range of Conceptual Metaphors......Page 187
Elaborations of Conceptual Metaphors......Page 188
Elaborations of Metonymies......Page 189
Within-Culture Variation......Page 190
Prototypes Changing Through Time......Page 191
Simultaneous Multiple Models......Page 192
Metonymy Versus Metaphor......Page 194
Alternative Conceptual Metaphors......Page 195
Broader Cultural Context......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 199
The New Synthesis with Social Constructionism......Page 200
Content of Emotional Experience......Page 204
Feeling States as Culturally Determined......Page 205
Emotion Language and Meaning......Page 206
Returning to Some Issues......Page 207
Why Metaphor Matters......Page 209
The Force Dynamic System......Page 210
Emotions and How They Differ from Other Domains......Page 211
Some Implications......Page 215
References......Page 219
Author Index......Page 229
Subject Index......Page 231
Metaphors......Page 234
Metonymies......Page 240