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Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese

  • Augusto Soares da Silva
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Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
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Abstract

This chapter investigates the impact of conceptual metaphor on the cultural variation of emotions in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP). Adopting a usage-based, sociocognitive view of language and applying a corpus-based and profile-based methodology, this study combines a multifactorial usage-feature and metaphorical profile analysis of 1,100 examples of anger and pride with their subsequent multivariate statistics modeling. BP seems more connected with complaining anger and the metaphorically unrestrained and perceptible manifestation of anger. Also, BP is closer to self-centered pride and the metaphorically visible manifestation of pride. In contrast, EP seems more akin to violent and interpersonal anger and the metaphorically profiled somatization of anger. Also, EP is more associated with other-directed pride and the personification of pride as an honored person. These statistically significant associations are consistent with the more individualistic, indulgent, and emotionally expressive culture of Brazil and the more collectivistic and restrained culture of Portugal.

Abstract

This chapter investigates the impact of conceptual metaphor on the cultural variation of emotions in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP). Adopting a usage-based, sociocognitive view of language and applying a corpus-based and profile-based methodology, this study combines a multifactorial usage-feature and metaphorical profile analysis of 1,100 examples of anger and pride with their subsequent multivariate statistics modeling. BP seems more connected with complaining anger and the metaphorically unrestrained and perceptible manifestation of anger. Also, BP is closer to self-centered pride and the metaphorically visible manifestation of pride. In contrast, EP seems more akin to violent and interpersonal anger and the metaphorically profiled somatization of anger. Also, EP is more associated with other-directed pride and the personification of pride as an honored person. These statistically significant associations are consistent with the more individualistic, indulgent, and emotionally expressive culture of Brazil and the more collectivistic and restrained culture of Portugal.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Introduction. Figurative language 1
  6. Part I. Intersubjectivity and interaction
  7. Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony 19
  8. Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes 41
  9. Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects 75
  10. The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction 109
  11. Part II. Mechanisms and processes
  12. Metaphor and irony 139
  13. Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis 175
  14. On verbal and situational irony 213
  15. On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings 241
  16. Part III. Usage and variation
  17. Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy 287
  18. Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration 307
  19. The fabric of metaphor in discourse 339
  20. Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon 357
  21. Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese 387
  22. Index 439
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.11.13sil

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Introduction. Figurative language 1
  6. Part I. Intersubjectivity and interaction
  7. Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony 19
  8. Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes 41
  9. Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects 75
  10. The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction 109
  11. Part II. Mechanisms and processes
  12. Metaphor and irony 139
  13. Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis 175
  14. On verbal and situational irony 213
  15. On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings 241
  16. Part III. Usage and variation
  17. Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy 287
  18. Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration 307
  19. The fabric of metaphor in discourse 339
  20. Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon 357
  21. Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese 387
  22. Index 439
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