Cover not available
Article published In:
Cognitive Linguistic Studies
Vol. 5:2 (2018) ► pp.303–340

Metaphor and emotion

A case of anger in Hindi phraseology

| Jawaharlal Nehru University

The objective of current research article is to examine the metaphorical concepts of emotion anger in conventionalized phraseological expressions or phraseologisms (pls) of Hindi. [1] 1 It aims to find out the extent to which conceptual metaphor motivate Hindi pls and influence their semantic configuration. In addition, it also compares the metaphorical concepts of Hindi mainly with that of English and Chinese while employing the research studies conducted by Kövecses (1990), Lakoff and Kövecses (1987) and Yu (2012), who have postulated that physical interaction with surrounding world as well as cultural artefacts and practices largely mediate the conceptualization of emotions in a given linguistic community. Being the language of a collectivist cultural community in India, Hindi chooses more language-specific anger metaphors and conceptualizes anger more cultural specifically than English and other languages do.

Keywords: conceptual metaphor, anger, Hindi phraseology, āyurvēda and prototype
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology
  • 3.Findings and discussion
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Abbreviation
  • Dictionaries
  • References
Published online: 14 February 2019
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00023.sha
References

Dictionaries

Bhatia, Kailash Chandra
(2001) hindī-iṅgliśa muhāvarā-lōkōkti kōśa [Hindi-English idiom-proverb thesaurus]. Delhi: Prabhat prakāśana [Prabhat Publication]Google Scholar
Kapoor, Badrinath
(2009) hindī muhāvarā ēvaṁ lōkōkti kōśa [Hindi idioms and proverbs thesaurus]. Delhi: Lokbhartiprakāśana [Lokbharti Publication]Google Scholar
Paneru, B. R.
(2011) dēvabhūmi hindī muhāvarā kōśa [Dēvabhūmi Hindi idioms thesaurus]. Nainital: Dēvabhūmi prakāśana [Dēvabhūmi Publication]Google Scholar
Sharma, Harivansh Rai
(2015) muhāvarā kōśa [Idioms theasaurus]. Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.Google Scholar
Tiwari, Bholanath
(2012) hindī muhāvarā kōśa [Hindi Idioms theasaurus]. Delhi: Hindi Book Center.Google Scholar
Trivedi, Shikha/Paramhans, S. P.
(2007) lōkōkti ēvaṁ muhāvarā kōśa [Proverbs and idioms thesaurus]. Delhi: Delhi pustaka sadana [Delhi Book House].Google Scholar
Banis, R.
(2015) Lehrbuch Psychosomatische Energetik. Stuttgart: Karl F. Haug Verlag.Google Scholar
Bergknapp, A.
(2002) Ärger in Organisationen: Eine systematische Strukturanalyse. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Dirven, R.
(1994) Metaphor and nation: Metaphors Afrikaners Live by. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Dobrovol’skij, D.
(1995) Kognitive Aspekte der Idiom-Semantik. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.Google Scholar
Dobrovoľskij, D.
(2009) Schieß und Espenlaub-Idiome der Angst. In Daneš, František (hrsg.), Folia Linguistica, 23 (3), 317–346.Google Scholar
Folkersma, P.
(2010) Emotionen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Körper und Kultur. Eine kognitiv-semantische Untersuchung von Aspekten der Motiviertheit körperbezogener Gefühlsausdrucks für Wut, Angst und Liebe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Geeraerts, D., & Grondelaers, S.
(1995) Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns. In J. R. Taylor & R. L. MacLaury (Eds.), Language and the cognitive construal of the world (pp. 153–179). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Gibbs, R., Bogdonovich, J., Skyes, J., & Barr, D.
(1997) Metaphor in idiom comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 141–154. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Guławska-Gawkowska, M.
(2013) Somatische und emotionale Konzepte in der deutschen und polnischen Phraseologie- Ein lexikographischer Ansatz zum phraseologischen Übersetzungswörterbuch. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kövecses, Z.
(1990) Metaphor and emotion. Language, culture and body in human feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
(2000) Metaphor and Emotion. Language, culture and body in human feeling (Revised version of 1990). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
(2005) Metaphor in culture: Universality and variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
(2006) Language, mind, and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Lad, V.
(2005) Ayurveda: The science of self-healing: A practical guide. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas Publishers.Google Scholar
Lakoff, G., & Kövecses, Z.
(1987) The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English. In D. Holand & N. Quinn (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought (pp. 195–221). New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Lakoff, G.
(1987) Women, fire and dangerous things. What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M.
(1980) Metaphors we live by. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Maalej, Z.
(2004) Figurative language in anger expressions in Tunisian Arabic: An extended view of embodiment. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 19(1), 51–75. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Matsuki, K.
(1995) Metaphors of anger in Japanese. In J. Taylor & R. Maclaury (Eds.), Language and the cognitive construal of the world (pp. 137–151). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Mikolajczuk, A.
(1998) The metonymic and metaphoric conceptualization of anger in Polish. In A. Angeliki & T. Elzbieta (Eds.), Speaking of emotions: conceptualization and expression (pp. 153–191). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Munro, P.
(1991) Anger is heat: Some data for a cross-linguistic survey. UCLA: Department of Linguistics.Google Scholar
Piirainen, E.
(2008): Phraseology in a European framework: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research project on widespread idioms. In S. Granger & F. Meunier (Eds.), Phraseology. An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 243–258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sharifian, F.
(2008) Conceptualization of del “heart-stomach” in Persian. In F. Sharifian, R. Dirven, N. Yu, & S. Niemeier (Eds.), Culture, body and language (pp. 247–266). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Stefanowitsch, A.
(2006) Words and their metaphors. A corpus-based approach. In A. Stefanowitsch & S. T. Gries (Eds.), Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy (pp. 63–105). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Taylor, J. R., & Thandi, G. M.
(1998) Red dogs and mealies: How Zulus talk about anger. In A. Angeliki & T. Elzbieta (Eds.), Speaking of emotions: conceptualization and expression (pp. 191–226). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Verma, V.
(2010): muhāvarēṁ ēvaṁ lōkōktiyām̐ [Idioms and proverbs]. Delhi: Hindi Book Center.Google Scholar
Yu, N.
(2012) Metaphorical expressions of anger and happiness in English and Chinese (reprint of a 1995 journal article). In P. Hanks & R. Giora (Eds.), Metaphor and figurative language. Volume 3. Literary and cross-cultural perspectives (pp. 328–359). New York and London: Routledge.Google Scholar