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Emotion Concepts: Social Constructivism and Cognitive Linguistics

Zoltán Kövecses sketches out his cognitive linguistic approach to the communication of emotion (e.g., Kövecses, 1996 ; 2000). He starts by contrasting the cognitive linguistic view of emotion language with that of Harre's "emotionology" (Harre, 1986). He notes that Harre and his fellow social constructivists have tended to focus on literal emotion terms such as anger, joy and sadness, and on terms for distinct emotions rather than classes of words for the same emotion (e.g., angry, irate, irritated). Kövecses then describes the cognitive linguistic approach, in which particular expressions for emotions are seen as reflecting deeper conceptual structures which are themselves metaphorical in nature and represent a folk theory of emotion (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Kövecses discusses at length, using many examples, how a large number of conventional metaphorical phrases for emotions (e.g., burst with tears, flipped one's lid) can be described in terms of an EMOTION AS FORCE conceptual metaphor. He argues that both causes and consequences of emotions are conceptualized metaphorically as forces. Kövecses provides examples showing striking similarities in the conceptual metaphors underlying emotional phrases in different languages and suggests this similarity might stem from similarities in how emotions are experienced in each of these cultures.

metaphor, metonymy, emotion, culture

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