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Metaphor and emotion : language, culture, and body in human feeling / Zoltán Kövecses.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series. Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2000Description: xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521641632
  • 9780521641630
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 21
LOC classification:
  • BF582 .K68 2000
Contents:
Language and emotion concepts -- Metaphor of emotion -- Emotion metaphors: are they unique to the emotions? -- Events and emotions: the subcategorization of emotions -- The force of emotion -- Emotions and relationships -- Folk versus expert theories of emotion -- Universality in the conceptualization of emotion -- Cultural variation in the conceptualization of emotion -- Emotion language: a new synthesis.
Summary: "Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e. biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e. social constructionism). This book challenges this 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. 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 intergrated system. It shows how this system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.

Language and emotion concepts -- Metaphor of emotion -- Emotion metaphors: are they unique to the emotions? -- Events and emotions: the subcategorization of emotions -- The force of emotion -- Emotions and relationships -- Folk versus expert theories of emotion -- Universality in the conceptualization of emotion -- Cultural variation in the conceptualization of emotion -- Emotion language: a new synthesis.

"Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e. biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e. social constructionism). This book challenges this 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. 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 intergrated system. It shows how this system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion."--Publisher description.

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