Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love
A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Published on 1. January 1986
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Paperback/Softback
147 pages
978-90-272-2558-0 (ISBN)
Description
This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center. This goes against an influential view of the structure of concepts in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, according to which the structure of a concept can be represented by a small number of sense components.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2558-0 (9789027225580)
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. 1. Goals and Methods; 3. 2. The Concept of Anger; 4. 2.1. Some questions; 5. 2.2. Metaphor and metonymy; 6. 2.3. The other principal metaphors; 7. 2.4. Some minor metaphors; 8. 2.5. The prototype scenario; 9. 2.6. Restatement of the prototypical scenario; 10. 2.7. The non-prototypical cases; 11. 2.8. Conclusions; 12. 3. The Concept of Pride; 13. 3.1. Some additional issues; 14. 3.2. Some metonymies for pride; 15. 3.3. Some metaphors; 16. 3.4. Causes of pride; 17. 3.5. Scales, related concepts and the prototype; 18. 3.6. Self-esteem; 19. 3.7. Conceit; 20. 3.8. Vanity; 21. 3.9. Conclusion; 22. 4. The Concept of Romantic Love; 23. 4.1. Some further aspects of a concept; 24. 4.2. The central metaphor; 25. 4.3. The object of love; 26. 4.4. Related concepts; 27. 4.5. Intensity; 28. 4.6. Passivity, lack of control, pleasantness; 29. 4.7. The ideal model; 30. 4.8. Towards the typical model; 31. 4.9. The typical model; 32. 5. Implications for Theories of Conceptual Structure; 33. 5.1. The structure of a concept; 34. 5.2. Metaphorical aspects of concepts; 35. 6. Implications for Theories of Lexical Structure; 36. 6.1. Polysemy; 37. 6.2. Collocation; 38. 6.3. Semantic fields; 39. References