Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Seminar: "Language and Cognition," language: English, abstract: When it comes to expressing the more intangible aspects of life, languages tend to employ the instruments of metaphor and metonymy in order to relate attributes of more concrete phenomena to the abstract phenomenon in question. This is especially true when the vast field of human emotions is concerned. With the world's languages differing in a myriad of ways in...