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.
| ISBN: | 9789027225580 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1986 |
| Author: | Zoltán Kövecses |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 155 pages |
| Series: | Pragmatics & Beyond |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |