Anger Metaphors across Languages: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Koevecses Z., Szelid V., Nucz E., Blanco-Carrion O., ARICA AKKÖK E., Szabo R.

BILINGUAL FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PROCESSING, ss.341-367, 2015 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: BILINGUAL FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PROCESSING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.341-367
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: anger metaphor, conceptual metaphor, corpus analysis, metaphorical mappings, metaphorical salience
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.