Chapter published in:
Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon
Orsolya Putz
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 11] 2019
► pp. 67–146

Chapter 3
The conceptualization of the consequences of the Peace Treaty of Trianon

Article outline
  • 1.The conceptualization of the direct and indirect consequences of the Peace Treaty of Trianon
  • 2.Conceptualization of the territorial changes
    • 2.1Change of the status of the possessed object (country, territory)
      • 2.1.1 Reducing a (country’s) territory is disintegrating an object/body
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is detaching an object
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is cutting an object/material up
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is tailoring a (possessed) material
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is chopping up an (/a possessed) object/material/body
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is truncating an (/a possessed) object/material/body
        • reducing a (country’s) territory is tearing a material apart
      • 2.1.2 Reducing a (country’s) territory is reducing the size of an object
      • 2.1.3 reducing a (country’s) territory is changing an object’s spatial position
      • 2.1.4Profiling the agent
      • 2.1.5Backgrounding and foregrounding the degree of the change experienced by the patient
    • 2.2The change that affects the possessor’s (Hungary, nation, Hungarian Kingdom) status
      • 2.2.1 reducing a (country’s) territory is acquiring (part of) an object
      • 2.2.2Foregrounding and backgrounding the agent
  • 3.The conceptualization of the population changes
    • 3.1The change affects the original owner (Hungary)
      • 3.1.1 reducing a country’s population is acquiring part of a possessed object
    • 3.2The change affects the possessed object (nation)
      • 3.2.1 Reducing the country’s population is disintegrating an object
      • 3.2.2 Reducing a country’s population is moving an object from one container to another
      • 3.2.3Foregrounding and backgrounding the one who causes change
    • 3.3The dual event structure model
  • 4.The conceptualization of the changes affecting the material and cultural resources
    • 4.1The change affects the possessed object (material and cultural resources)
      • 4.1.1 Reducing the country’s material and cultural resources is disintegrating an object
      • 4.1.2 Reducing the country’s material and cultural resources is moving an object from a container to another
    • 4.2The change affects the owner (Hungary, nation, Hungarian Kingdom)
      • 4.2.1 Reducing the country’s material and cultural resources is acquiring an object
  • 5.The conceptualization of the change of the Hungarian nation and Hungarian state categories
    • 5.1 The pre-1920 Hungarian nation and the post-1920 Hungarian nation categories
    • 5.2The category of Hungarians living in the successor states
    • 5.3The conceptualization of the relationship of the central and peripheral members of the pre-1920 Hungarian nation category
    • 5.4The conceptualization of the relationship of the post-1920 Hungarian nation category and the nations of the beneficiary states categories
    • 5.5The conceptualization of the relationship of the central and peripheral members of the nations of the beneficiary states category
    • 5.6The conceptualization of the relationship of the central and peripheral members of the post-1920 Hungarian nation category
      • 5.6.1 The nation is substance in a container
      • 5.6.2 The Hungarian nation is a whole/unity
      • 5.6.3 the nation is a disintegrated object
      • 5.6.4 The nation is a person. Life is a journey
      • 5.6.5 The nation is a family. The relations of the members of the nation are family relations
      • 5.6.6Mixed metaphors
      • 5.6.7The main meaning foci of the conceptual metaphors of the relationship of the central and peripheral members of the post-1920 Hungarian nation category
    • 5.7The conceptualization of the relationship of the central members, of the peripheral members of the post-1920 Hungarian nation category and of the central members of the nations of the beneficiary states category
      • 5.7.1 The agent who causes harm
      • 5.7.2 The nurturant mother
      • 5.7.3 The child who needs to be looked after
      • 5.7.4 The victim
        • causing harm is physical impact
        • social force is physical force
        • Enforcing one’s right is struggle
      • 5.7.5Hiding the agent who causes harm, the suppressor, and the enemy
    • 5.8The role of perspective in the conceptualization of the relationship of the central and peripheral members of the post-1920 Hungarian nation category and of the central members of the nations of the beneficiary states category
    • 5.9The pre-1920 and the post-1920 Hungarian state categories
    • 5.10The conceptualization of the relationship of the categories of pre-1920 and post-1920 Hungarian states and the nations of the beneficiary states category
    • 5.11The conceptualization of the relations of the states, the nations and the members of the Hungarian nation from synchronic and diachronic perspectives
      • 5.11.1The relations of the states
      • 5.11.2The relationship of the Hungarian nation and other nations
      • 5.11.3The relationship of the members of the Hungarian nation category
      • 5.11.4Nations of the beneficiary countries
  • 6.The conceptualization of the change of knowledge about the country and the nation
    • 6.1The conceptualization of the changes affecting the country’s/nation’s political status
      • 6.1.1 The nation/the country is a person
        • The nation is a victim
        • The nation is a survivor
        • The nation/country is a person who has little power
      • 6.1.2 The nation is an integral object
        • The nation is a unity
        • The mental inconsistence between the disintegrated object and the integral object/unity metaphors
        • Multi-layer metaphors
    • 6.2The conceptualization of the change affecting the mental and emotional state of the nation
      • 6.2.1Emotional self
        • Negative emotion is physical pain
        • Emotional impact is physical impact metaphor and the mental impact for the effect of the mental impact metonymy
        • Negative emotion is grief
        • The conceptualization of emotions
      • 6.2.2The rational self
        • Knowing is touching
        • Knowing is seeing
        • The conceptualization of the nation’s consciousness
      • 6.2.3The relation of the rational self and the emotional self
  • 7.Summary
    • 7.1The Peace Treaty of Trianon and its consequences/effects
    • 7.2The conceptualization of the change affecting Hungary/the Hungarian nation
    • 7.3The value system entranced in the metaphors
    • 7.4The conceptualization of the agent and the patient of the change