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

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Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling - Kövecses, Zoltán
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This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biological-physiological ...

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Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling 2003, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521541466

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Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521641630

Hardcover