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Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair

Abstract

This chapter offers a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisations of beard and moustache in Hungarian proverbs. While facial hair is an underexploited field in paremiology, the chapter argues that it is an appropriate concept for capturing the cultural aspects of the figurative language collections of proverbs. The study analyses 31 proverbs selected from five collections, where the identification process of cultural conceptualisations involves conceptual analysis combined with drawing on other linguistic evidence and culturally relevant ethnographic data. The results show that the seven target concepts (personality, manliness, independence, patriotism, age, dignity, and wisdom) are interconnected in the Hungarian cultural model of man, and moustache has a dominance and more positive value in cultural cognition as compared to beard. The study shows how the theoretical framework and methodological tools of Cultural Linguistics can be used in studying the cultural elements of proverbs and how they can enhance the understanding of their linkage to cultural models.

Abstract

This chapter offers a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisations of beard and moustache in Hungarian proverbs. While facial hair is an underexploited field in paremiology, the chapter argues that it is an appropriate concept for capturing the cultural aspects of the figurative language collections of proverbs. The study analyses 31 proverbs selected from five collections, where the identification process of cultural conceptualisations involves conceptual analysis combined with drawing on other linguistic evidence and culturally relevant ethnographic data. The results show that the seven target concepts (personality, manliness, independence, patriotism, age, dignity, and wisdom) are interconnected in the Hungarian cultural model of man, and moustache has a dominance and more positive value in cultural cognition as compared to beard. The study shows how the theoretical framework and methodological tools of Cultural Linguistics can be used in studying the cultural elements of proverbs and how they can enhance the understanding of their linkage to cultural models.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Table of contents vii
  4. Editor and contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. List of tables and figures xv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
  9. Chapter 1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26
  10. Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs 40
  11. Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs 65
  12. Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
  13. Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs 88
  14. Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English 112
  15. Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132
  16. Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
  17. Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs 174
  18. Chapter 8. Living is movement 202
  19. Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program 230
  20. Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
  21. Chapter 10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone 260
  22. Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298
  23. Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat” 328
  24. Index 349
Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter is in the book Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.16.11koc

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Table of contents vii
  4. Editor and contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. List of tables and figures xv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
  9. Chapter 1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26
  10. Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs 40
  11. Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs 65
  12. Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
  13. Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs 88
  14. Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English 112
  15. Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132
  16. Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
  17. Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs 174
  18. Chapter 8. Living is movement 202
  19. Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program 230
  20. Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
  21. Chapter 10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone 260
  22. Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298
  23. Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat” 328
  24. Index 349
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