Kövecses, Zoltán, Kovecses Zoltan
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This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from indiv
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iduals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recurring embodied experiences, one reason why human emotions across many cultures conform to certain basic biological-physiological processes in the human body and of the body interacting with the external world. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an integrated system. Kovecses convincingly shows how this integrated system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.
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Emotions
EMOTIONS AND COGNITION
Language and emotions
Sociological aspects
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press;Maison des Sciences de l'homme
Month-Year
Feb, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780521641630
ISBN-10: 0521641632
Language
English
No. of Pages
223
Format
Paperback
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