Metaphor and Emotion

Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling

By:

Zoltan K'Ovecses

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

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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 processes in the human body and of the body interacting with the external world. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an integrated system. Kovecses convincingly shows how this integrated system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2003

Author

Zoltan K'Ovecses

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

244

Series

Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780521541466

Product ID

2460936

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