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Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel
[Human Cognitive Processing 73] 2022
► pp. 405–438

Chapter 13
Contrasts and analogies in cluster categories of emotion concepts in monolingual and cross-linguistic contexts

contempt

| University of Applied Sciences in Konin
| University of Lodz

The chapter focuses on the similarities and contrasts in the nature, function and cognitive semantic description of British English versus Polish moral emotion cluster concepts in their contrastive and translational contexts, particularly of contempt and its relationship with disgust and anger. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the role of analogy in cross-cultural variation in emotion concepts. The presentation of the cluster nature of such concepts is framed in terms of particular Emotion Events (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson 2013) and is taken as an analogous point of departure in their intra- and cross-linguistic analysis. Three complementary and multidisciplinary methodological paradigms were employed: GRID instrument, online emotions sorting task, and cognitive corpus-based linguistics. The conclusions indicate areas of analogy in the semantic content of the examined clusters of emotion concepts, on the one hand, and intra- and inter-linguistic contrasts, on the other.

Keywords: anger, conceptual clusters, corpus, disgust, Emotion Event, English, GRID, online emotions sorting, Polish
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Analogy
    • 1.2Introducing contempt/anger/disgust cluster
    • 1.3Linguistic characterisation of the cluster
      • 1.3.1Syntactic-semantic frames
    • 1.4Aims
  • 2.Materials and methods
    • 2.1Online emotions sorting methodology
      • 2.1.1Procedure
      • 2.1.2Participants
    • 2.2GRID
      • 2.2.1Procedure
      • 2.2.2Participants
  • 3.Online emotions sorting and GRID results
    • 3.1Online emotions sorting results
      • 3.1.1Contempt vs. pogarda – anger and fear cluster co-occurrences
      • 3.1.2Contempt vs. pogarda – humiliation co-occurrences
    • 3.2GRID results
      • 3.2.1GRID conclusions
  • 4.Language data
    • 4.1Materials and methods
    • 4.2Collocational links between contempt and disgust
    • 4.3Contempt metaphoricity
      • 4.3.1English
      • 4.3.2Polish
    • 4.4Parallel corpus data
    • 4.5Contempt and disgust
      • 4.5.1Disgust metaphoricity
    • 4.6Contempt and anger
      • 4.6.1Anger metaphoricity
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 27 October 2022
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