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Cross-cultural semantic and pragmatic profiling of emotion words. Regulation and expression of anger in Spanish and German

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Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse
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Abstract

This paper provides a cross-cultural description of several emotion words from the domain of anger in two languages. It aims to evaluate differences and similarities regarding the regulation and expression of those emotions. The paper employs a combination of two approaches. First, it undertakes a descriptive analysis of emotion words, combining fundamental ideas drawn from cognitive semantics, such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, with a corpus-based methodology that makes use of key corpus-linguistic notions like semantic preference and semantic prosody (Oster 2010). The paper then goes on to evaluate the resulting data in the light of Ogarkova and Soriano’s (2014) concept of semantic foci. These foci are used to organize and group the detailed data obtained during the first phase of the analysis in order to paint a broader picture of the ways in which different cultures conceptualize given emotions and which aspects they foreground. The paper carries out a contrastive study on anger in Spanish and German (ira, rabia, enojo vs. Zorn, Wut, Arger). The results are interpreted on two different levels: crosslinguistically, i.e. in terms of the similarities and differences between languages/cultures; and intralinguistically, i.e., by evaluating the ways in which different emotion words from the same category in each language differ from and complement each other.

Abstract

This paper provides a cross-cultural description of several emotion words from the domain of anger in two languages. It aims to evaluate differences and similarities regarding the regulation and expression of those emotions. The paper employs a combination of two approaches. First, it undertakes a descriptive analysis of emotion words, combining fundamental ideas drawn from cognitive semantics, such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, with a corpus-based methodology that makes use of key corpus-linguistic notions like semantic preference and semantic prosody (Oster 2010). The paper then goes on to evaluate the resulting data in the light of Ogarkova and Soriano’s (2014) concept of semantic foci. These foci are used to organize and group the detailed data obtained during the first phase of the analysis in order to paint a broader picture of the ways in which different cultures conceptualize given emotions and which aspects they foreground. The paper carries out a contrastive study on anger in Spanish and German (ira, rabia, enojo vs. Zorn, Wut, Arger). The results are interpreted on two different levels: crosslinguistically, i.e. in terms of the similarities and differences between languages/cultures; and intralinguistically, i.e., by evaluating the ways in which different emotion words from the same category in each language differ from and complement each other.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Metaphor analysis in discourse. Introduction 1
  4. Part I: Metaphor and knowledge configuration in discourse
  5. Some consequences of a multi-level view of metaphor 19
  6. Cross-cultural semantic and pragmatic profiling of emotion words. Regulation and expression of anger in Spanish and German 35
  7. Metaphors and evaluation in popular economic discourse on trade wars 57
  8. Transdiscursive term transformation: The evidence from cognitive discursive research of the term ‘virus’ 79
  9. Metaphor in grammar: Mapping across syntactic domains 111
  10. Metaphors in the digital world: The case of metaphorical frames in ‘Facebook’ and ‘Amazon’ 131
  11. Metaphorical conceptualization in the Euromaidan discourse 155
  12. Part II: Consciousness in metaphor usage
  13. Deliberate metaphors and embodied simulation 185
  14. Deliberate metaphors in Buddhist teachings about meditation 205
  15. Using deliberate metaphor in discourse: Native vs. non-native text production 235
  16. George Ridpath’s use of metaphor, metonymy and metaphtonymy during the Peace Campaign (1710–1713) of the War of the Spanish Succession 257
  17. Part III: Metaphor analysis in multimodal discourse
  18. Spatialization of abstract concepts in cartoons. A case study of verbo-pictorial image-schematic metaphors 279
  19. Analyzing metaphor in film: Some conceptual challenges 295
  20. Transmodality in metaphors: TIDES in Spanish social protest movements 321
  21. Visual metaphors in economic discourse. An analysis of the interaction of conventional and novel visual metaphors in The Economist 347
  22. Developments in multimodal metaphor studies: A response to Górska, Coëgnarts, Porto & Romano, and Muelas-Gil 367
  23. Subject Index 379
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629460-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Metaphor analysis in discourse. Introduction 1
  4. Part I: Metaphor and knowledge configuration in discourse
  5. Some consequences of a multi-level view of metaphor 19
  6. Cross-cultural semantic and pragmatic profiling of emotion words. Regulation and expression of anger in Spanish and German 35
  7. Metaphors and evaluation in popular economic discourse on trade wars 57
  8. Transdiscursive term transformation: The evidence from cognitive discursive research of the term ‘virus’ 79
  9. Metaphor in grammar: Mapping across syntactic domains 111
  10. Metaphors in the digital world: The case of metaphorical frames in ‘Facebook’ and ‘Amazon’ 131
  11. Metaphorical conceptualization in the Euromaidan discourse 155
  12. Part II: Consciousness in metaphor usage
  13. Deliberate metaphors and embodied simulation 185
  14. Deliberate metaphors in Buddhist teachings about meditation 205
  15. Using deliberate metaphor in discourse: Native vs. non-native text production 235
  16. George Ridpath’s use of metaphor, metonymy and metaphtonymy during the Peace Campaign (1710–1713) of the War of the Spanish Succession 257
  17. Part III: Metaphor analysis in multimodal discourse
  18. Spatialization of abstract concepts in cartoons. A case study of verbo-pictorial image-schematic metaphors 279
  19. Analyzing metaphor in film: Some conceptual challenges 295
  20. Transmodality in metaphors: TIDES in Spanish social protest movements 321
  21. Visual metaphors in economic discourse. An analysis of the interaction of conventional and novel visual metaphors in The Economist 347
  22. Developments in multimodal metaphor studies: A response to Górska, Coëgnarts, Porto & Romano, and Muelas-Gil 367
  23. Subject Index 379
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