Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love :: a lexical approach to the structure of concepts.

This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (...

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1. Verfasser: Kövecses, Zoltán
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond ; VII:8.
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Zusammenfassung:This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center. This goes against an influential view of the structure of concepts in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, according to which the structure of a concept can be represented by a small number of sense components.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (155 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789027279279
9027279276
1283359006
9781283359009
9786613359001
6613359009
ISSN:0166-6258 ;

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