The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish

Mikołajczuk, Agnieszka

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“…Third, India is culturally and socially different from the USA. It has different ethnic groups (India is 72 % Indo-Aryan and 25 % Dravidian; the USA is 63.7 % White, 16.3 % Hispanic or Latino, and 12.6 % Black), religions (79.6 % Hindu and 14.2 % Muslim vs. 86.2 % Christian with 24.5 % Catholic and 15.8 % Baptist), (Chen et al, 2014;Fetterman et al, 2012;Waggoner & Palermo, 1989) India (Kennedy, 2011) China (Chen et al, 2014;Yu, 1995) Hungary Japan Matsuki, 1995) Poland (Mikolajczuk, 1998) Zulu language …”

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Is sadness blue? The problem of using figurative language for emotions on psychological tests

2016

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Psychological tests sometimes include figurative language like I feel blue. However, figurative language may not mean the same thing cross-culturally. Previous research found cross-cultural evidence for 14 conceptual metaphors and metonymies for emotions (e.g., sadness is blue). Our two studies asked participants (total n = 795) in the USA and India whether happiness, sadness, anger, and fear are associated with certain descriptors (blue, down, bright, etc.). Most participants in both countries endorsed ten of the 14 hypothesized associations; however, the percentage of participants endorsing an association was often far from 100 %. For example, in the USA, only 71.7 % associated hot with anger and only 65.9 % associated blue with sadness. Moreover, descriptors were often associated with more than one emotion. Furthermore, only two associations (happiness is up and bright) were endorsed by more than 90 % of participants in both countries and had descriptors that were not associated with additional emotions. We conclude that figurative language is often ambiguous and should be used with caution on psychological tests unless there is evidence the language is understood cross-culturally. Advice to this effect is currently lacking from psychometrics textbooks and should be added.

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Is sadness blue? The problem of using figurative language for emotions on psychological tests

2016

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“…Among the best documented is the structuring of the concept of anger in terms of the metaphor ANGER IS A HOT FLUID IN A CONTAINER, following the seminal study in ). Mappings consistent with this metaphor have been proposed for several unrelated languages such as Chinese (Yu 1995), Hungarian (Kövecses 2000), Japanese (Matsuki 1995), Polish (Mikolajczuk 1998), Spanish (Soriano Salinas 2003), Tunisian Arabic (Maalej 2004), and Zulu (Taylor & Mbense 1998). The crosslinguistic evidence has been interpreted as indicative of cross-cultural conceptual consistency: 'the short answer to the question of why emotion concepts in diverse cultures share a basic structure is that the cultures also share a central metaphor that informs and structures the concepts (i. e., the folk understandings).…”

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Introduction: Thirty Years After

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Morgagni

2009

Cognitive Semiotics

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“…Among the best documented is the structuring of the concept of anger in terms of the metaphor ANGER IS A HOT FLUID IN A CONTAINER, following the seminal study in (Kövecses 1986). Mappings consistent with this metaphor have been proposed for several unrelated languages such as Chinese (Yu 1995), Hungarian (Kövecses 2000), Japanese (Matsuki 1995), Polish (Mikolajczuk 1998), Spanish (Soriano Salinas 2003, Tunisian Arabic (Maalej 2004), and Zulu (Taylor & Mbense 1998). The crosslinguistic evidence has been interpreted as indicative of cross-cultural conceptual consistency: 'the short answer to the question of why emotion concepts in diverse cultures share a basic structure is that the cultures also share a central metaphor that informs and structures the concepts (i. e., the folk understandings).…”

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The Role of Metaphor in the Structuring of Emotion Concepts

Sauciuc

2009

Cognitive Semiotics

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Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) is one of the most prolific frameworks in the study of emotion concepts. Following the seminal work of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and subsequent work by Kövecses (1986Kövecses ( , 1990 and Kövecses and Lakoff (1987), an impressive number of studies in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics have sought to document and confirm the claim that conceptual metaphor (CM) structures affective concepts. I attempt a brief overview of CMT claims about and CMT-inspired research on emotion concepts. I continue by presenting a study based on data collected in six languages, to assess the role of CM in the structuring of emotion concepts. I introduce the procedure, the corpus, and the analyses that have been carried out, including a detailed discussion of the considerations that informed the coding decisions applied to the corpus in a tentative quantitative analysis. Finally, I highlight a series of difficulties and controversies raised by CMT-driven analysis of emotion concepts that could be employed in hypothesis-driven experiments to test conceptual processing claims made within CMT.

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The metonymic and metaphorical conceptualisation of anger in Polish

Cited by 127 publications

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Is sadness blue? The problem of using figurative language for emotions on psychological tests

Is sadness blue? The problem of using figurative language for emotions on psychological tests

Introduction: Thirty Years After

The Role of Metaphor in the Structuring of Emotion Concepts

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