The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Anna Gladkova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Gladkova plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
2021 “What is beauty?”: Cultural semantics of the Russian folk aesthetics The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 84–105 | Article
The paper studies the semantics of four Russian key terms of aesthetic evaluation: krasivyj ‘beautiful’, prekrasnyj ‘beautiful/fine’, nekrasivyj ’ugly/plain’ and bezobraznyj ‘ugly/frightful’. It demonstrates different patterns of polysemy of the words and the nuances of meaning. Following the… read more
2021 Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder? The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in English The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 106–127 | Article
The paper explores the meaning and use of ugly in English. The study is based on corpus data from Cobuild Wordbanks Online and investigates the polysemy and the spheres of application of the concept. Through corpus analysis methodology, we investigate the most common collocations and the… read more
2021 The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics: Past, present and future The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction
This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic conceptualization of “beautiful” and “ugly” as the key concepts that are basic to aesthetic appreciation across languages and cultures within the framework of folk aesthetics. For this purpose, we present a collection of original… read more
2018 Methodological triangulation in the study of emotion: The case of 'anger' in three language groups Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article
This chapter explores the value of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in theinterdisciplinary study of emotion. The insights provided by a quantitative,corpus-based analysis of anger metaphors in three languages (English, Spanish, Russian) are compared to those obtained from two other methodologies… read more
2016 Methodological triangulation in the study of emotion: The case of ‘anger’ in three language groups Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 73–101 | Article
This paper explores the value of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in the interdisciplinary study of emotion. The insights provided by a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of anger metaphors in three languages (English, Spanish, Russian) are compared to those obtained from two other methodologies… read more
2014 HERE, NEAR, FAR: Spatial conceptualisation and cognition in a cross-linguistic perspective (English vs. Russian) Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 121–150 | Article
This chapter explores variation and similarities in the conceptualisation of space in Russian and English on the basis of selected terms of ‘location’ and ‘proximity/distance’. It adopts the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, which identifies eight semantic universals of space, three of… read more
2012 8. Universals and specifics of ‘time’ in Russian Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 167–188 | Article
This chapter addresses the question of universal and language- and culture-specific traits in conceptualisation of ‘time’. It tests the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) hypothesis that semantic universals time and now should be found in Russian. It demonstrates that vremja and sejčas are… read more
2008 12. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with English Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Goddard, Cliff (ed.), pp. 301–329 | Article
2007 4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes": Russian vs. English Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 61–83 | Article