Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Hardcover

Zoltán Kövecses

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521641632 ISBN 13: 9780521641630

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

How human emotions are 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.

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Review

'I deem Metaphor and Emotion to be a substantial work ... I believe that any literary-linguistic scholar interested in cognition, emotion or metaphor will find this work hugely rewarding.' Language and Literature

'Metaphor and Emotion contains much that is interesting, even intriguing ... Though the book's emphasis is firmly on linguistic analysis, Metaphor and Emotion will also be rewarding and suggestive for philosophers, psychologists and anyone eager to look in more detail at the relative place of language, body and culture in the constitution of human emotions.' Philosophical Writings

'... an informative, readable and at times entertaining overview of metaphor and culture.' The Psychologist

Book Description

Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). This book challenges this division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521641632
• ISBN 13: 9780521641630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242