Zoltán Kövecses
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zoltán Kövecses plays a role.
Book series
Journals
ISSN 2213-8722 | E-ISSN 2213-8730
ISSN 2214-3157 | E-ISSN 2214-3165
ISSN 1877-9751 | E-ISSN 1877-976X
Yearbook
ISSN 1572-0268 | E-ISSN 1572-0276
Title
Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Zoltán Kövecses
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:8] 1986. vii, 147 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
Articles
Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor: A comparison Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 131–142
2022 In the paper, I try to systematically compare what Gibbs calls the “dynamic systems view” of metaphor with what I call “extended conceptual metaphor theory.” I suggest that both views share the assumption that the totality of our experiences can contribute to metaphor production and comprehension.… read more | Chapter
The heart of the matter: A matter of the heart: The crucifixion of Jesus from a cognitive semantic perspective Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 91–103
2022 Why should Jesus die? I attempt to investigate the symbolic roots and significance of the crucifixion by means of the conceptual tools and methodology of cognitive semantics. In particular, I propose that we approach the meaning of Jesus’ death on four symbolic levels:
the level where… read more | Article
Visual metaphor in extended conceptual metaphor theory Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 15–32
2022 My goal in the chapter is to examine a variety of visual experiences that appear to evoke visual metaphors. This is a range of experience types that extends from “sign-like” visual experiences to “non-sign-like” visual experiences. I propose that visual metaphors are evoked by paintings through… read more | Chapter
A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 71–88
2020 This chapter focuses on the way in which we think about our conceptual system and puts forward a number of questions related to its essential structures in terms of their schematicity. It is proposed that image schemas, domains, frames and mental spaces are interconnected in metaphorical… read more | Chapter
2020
A major insight of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is that it added a strong, empirically testable cognitive dimension to the study of metaphor that is capable of changing the way we think about metaphor not only in language, but also thought and action, and, ultimately, the way we do philosophy… read more | Article
Visual metaphor in extended conceptual metaphor theory Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 13–30
2020 My goal in the paper is to examine a variety of visual experiences that appear to evoke visual metaphors. This is a range of experience types that extends from “sign-like” visual experiences to “non-sign-like” visual experiences. I propose that visual metaphors are evoked by paintings through… read more | Article
Chapter 16. Perception and metaphor: The case of smell Perception Metaphors, Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 327–346
2019 The general issue I address in the paper is this: How is the concept of smell linguistically coded in English, as examined from a cognitive linguistic perspective? I break down this larger theoretical issue into three sub-issues: One sub-issue concerns what the lexis of smell in English reveals… read more | Chapter
Chapter 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 147–174
2019 In the past 15–20 years, there has been an increasing tendency to study metaphors found in real data (large corpora, specific discourses, conversations, etc.). What became known as “corpus-linguistic methods” of metaphor study, distinguish themselves from a prior way of studying metaphor that is… read more | Chapter
Surprise as a conceptual category Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 7–26
2017 In this paper, I examine the concept of surprise from a cognitive linguistic perspective. As previous studies indicate, surprise is a not-quite-prototypical emotion category. My focus will be on the structure and content of surprise as an emotion category, as this can be revealed on the basis of… read more | Article
Chapter 1. A view of “mixed metaphor” within a conceptual metaphor theory framework Mixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. (ed.), pp. 1–16
2016 How does conceptual metaphor theory handle mixed metaphors? Several metaphor scholars argue that mixed metaphor is a phenomenon that conceptual metaphor theory cannot handle. Their argument is that, given the claims of conceptual metaphor theory, mixed metaphors should not occur at all. This is… read more | Article
Surprise as a conceptual category Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 270–290
2015 In this paper, I examine the concept of surprise from a cognitive linguistic perspective. As previous studies indicate, surprise is a not-quite-prototypical emotion category. My focus will be on the structure and content of surprise as an emotion category, as this can be revealed on the basis of… read more | Article
2014
The issue of context has been, in the main, neglected in cognitive linguistic and much other work on how conceptual systems change and vary. In most recent work on conceptual systems, the issues of embodied cognition and the universal nature of cognitive operations have been emphasized. By… read more | Article
Lexicography and cognitive linguistics Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 118–139
2014 The lexicon of a language is not an unstructured list of words. In this paper, we exemplify some of the basic conceptual structures that cognitive linguists work with and we discuss their potential applications to lexicographic work. Specifically, we focus on the possible advantages of using… read more | Article
Recent developments in metaphor theory: Are the new views rival ones? Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 11–25
2013 Several scholars have proposed alternative views to conceptual metaphor theory (see, for example, Ortony, 1993; Barnden, 2006; Wilson and Carston, 2006, 2008; Vega, 2007; Gibbs, 2008). How are the modified, refined, and alternative theories related to each other and standard conceptual metaphor… read more | Article
The biblical story retold: A cognitive linguistic perspective Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.), pp. 325–354
2011 In this chapter I offer one, or a small set of, possible interpretation(s) of the basic story of the Bible. I suggest that the symbolic meaning of the story derives in large part from conceptual structures and conceptual mechanisms that are shared by a large number of speakers of English and other… read more | Article
Recent developments in metaphor theory: Are the new views rival ones? Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 11–25
2011 Several scholars have proposed alternative views to conceptual metaphor theory (see, for example, Ortony, 1993; Barnden, 2006; Wilson and Carston, 2006, 2008; Vega, 2007; Gibbs, 2008). How are the modified, refined, and alternative theories related to each other and standard conceptual metaphor… read more | Article
Conceptual metaphor theory: Some criticisms and alternative proposals Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 168–184
2008 Despite its popularity in and outside cognitive linguistics, cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) has received a wide range of criticisms in the past two decades. Several metaphor researchers have criticized the methodology with which metaphor is studied (emphasizing concepts instead of words), the… read more | Article
Force and emotion Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 145–168
2000 Using the schemas of force dynamics to examine how the emotions are conceptualized in natural language, this essay conducts detailed analysis of the relationship between the metaphors of cause as force, and force (qua opponent) as a source domain of emotions. The author’s main thesis is that the… read more | Chapter
Metaphor: Does it constitute or reflect cultural models? Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 167 ff.
1999 Article
Language And Emotion Concepts: What Experientialists and Social Constructionists Have in Common Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates, Palmer, Gary B. and Debra J. Occhi (eds.), pp. 237 ff.
1999 Article
Towards a Theory of Metonymy Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 17–59
1999 Article