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. 147–184

Chapter 4
The contextual factors that motivate the conceptual processes that are at work during the conceptualization of the peace treaty and its consequences

Article outline
  • 1.Bodily experiences
    • 1.1Experiences about the objects and their interaction
      • 1.1.1The structure of the object
      • 1.1.2The extension of the object
      • 1.1.3The spatial location of objects in respect to one other
      • 1.1.4The force that affects an object
    • 1.2Experiences about persons
      • 1.2.1Experiences about persons in a society
        • The family
        • The neighbor
      • 1.2.2Experiences about persons determined by their body
        • The body affected by a physical force
        • The ability of object manipulation
      • 1.2.3Experience about a person who has a certain personality
  • 2.The figurative-cognitive context
    • 2.1Ideology
      • 2.1.1Capitalist market economy
      • 2.1.2National myth
      • 2.1.3Nationalism
      • 2.1.4Revisionism
    • 2.2Expert and lay theories
  • 3.The conventional conceptual system about Trianon as context
    • 3.1The Peace Treaty of Trianon as a complex event
    • 3.2The categorization of the Trianon peace treaty
      • 3.2.1The dictate category
      • 3.2.2The injustice category
      • 3.2.3The day of mourning category
    • 3.3The conceptualization of the consequences of the Peace Treaty of Trianon
      • 3.3.1The conceptualization of the territorial and population changes
        • The agent that changes the status of the possessed object (territory, population)
          • Reducing a country’s territory/population is changing the spatial arrangement of an objects
          • Reducing a country’s territory is reducing the size of an object
          • Reducing a country’s territory is disintegrating an object/body
          • An agent that changes the status of the possessor
      • 3.3.2The conceptualization of the change of the Hungarian state category
        • The conceptualization of the pre-1920 state
        • The conceptualization of the post-1920 state
      • 3.3.3The conceptualization of the change of the Hungarian nation category
        • The Hungarian nation cultural model
        • The cultural model of the peripheral members of the Hungarian nation category (ethnic Hungarians)
        • The decision makers cultural model
        • The cultural model of the dominant nations of the beneficiary countries
      • 3.3.4The conceptualization of the solution of the problem triggered by the Peace Treaty of Trianon
        • The justice-injustice categories
        • The specific level metaphor of the disintegration metaphor: detaching
        • Acquisition metaphor
        • Death metaphor
        • The history category
    • 3.4The comparison of the conceptual system of 1920–1930 and 1990–2015 about the Peace Treaty of Trianon
  • Summary