Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling

ISBN-13: 9780521541466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 244 str.

Zoltan Kovecses; Keith Oatley; Antony Manstead

Opis

How human emotions are 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.

Recenzje

'… an informative, readable and at times entertaining overview of metaphor and culture.' The Psychologist

Spis treści

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.