Metaphor and Emotion : Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling Paperback / softback
by Zoltan (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest) Kovecses
Part of the Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2003
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- ISBN:9780521541466
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521541466
