Personification in Language and Thought
Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian
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ISBN 9789027243140 | EUR 130.00 | USD 169.00
This monograph offers the first comprehensive account of personification in Hungarian, a subtle yet pervasive feature of everyday cognition and language. Combining cognitive linguistics with corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses, it reveals how personifying meaning is conceptually structured, grammatically realized, and distributed across registers. The study introduces refined methodological tools and applies them to a richly annotated dataset, bridging qualitative insight and quantitative precision. By focusing on an underexplored figure of speech in a less-resourced language, the book advances both theoretical understanding and empirical research, setting a new standard for the study of figurative language.
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 27] Expected December 2026. xiii, 271 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–xi
- Acknowledgement | pp. xiii–13
- Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–14
- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing personification | pp. 15–41
- Chapter 3. Material and methods | pp. 42–86
- Chapter 4. The lexicogrammar of personification | pp. 87–141
- Chapter 5. The variability of linguistic personification across registers | pp. 142–200
- Chapter 6. Scaling up the analysis: From the PerSE corpus to representative corpora of Hungarian | pp. 201–247
- Chapter 7. Conclusions | pp. 248–252
- References | pp. 253–261
- Appendix | pp. 263–271