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This page intentionally left blank Metaphor and Emotion Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? 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 thissimplisticdivision betweenthe bodyand culture byshowinghowhumanemotionsaretoa largeextent‘‘constructed’’fromindividuals’embodiedexperiencesindif- ferentculturalsettings.Zolta´nKo¨vecsesillustratesthroughdetailedcross- linguistic analyses how many emotionconceptsreflectwidespreadmeta- phorical patterns of thought. These emotion metaphors arise from recur- ringembodiedexperiences,onereasonwhyhumanemotionsacrossmany culturesconformtocertainbasicbiological-physiologicalprocessesinthe human body and of the body interacting with the external world. More- over, there are different cultural models for emotions that arise from uniquepatternsofbothmetaphoricalandmetonymicthinkinginvarying cultural contexts. The view proposed here demonstrateshowculturalas- pectsofemotions,metaphoricallanguageabouttheemotions,andhuman physiologyinemotionareallpartofanintegratedsystem.Ko¨vecsescon- vincinglyshowshowthisintegratedsystempointstothereconciliationof the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionismincontemporarydebatesabouthumanemotion. Zolta´nKo¨vecsesisProfessorofLinguisticsintheDepartmentofAmerican StudiesatEo¨tvo¨sLora´ndUniversity. STUDIES IN EMOTION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION Second Series SeriesEditors KeithOatley UniversityofToronto AntonyManstead UniversityofAmsterdam ThisseriesisjointlypublishedbytheCambridgeUniversityPressand theEditionsdelaMaisondesSciencesdel’Homme,aspartofthejoint publishingagreementestablishedin1977betweentheFondationdela MaisondesSciencesdel’HommeandtheSyndicsoftheCambridge UniversityPress. Cetecollectionestpublie´eco-e´ditionparCambridgeUniversityPresset lesEditionsdelaMaisondesSciencesdel’Homme.Elles’inte`gredans leprogrammedeco-e´ditione´tablien1977parlaFondationdela MaisondesSciencesdel’HommeetlesSyndicsdeCambridge UniversityPress. TitlespublishedintheSecondSeries: ThePsychologyofFacialExpression EditedbyJamesA.RussellandJose´ MiguelFerna´ndez-Dols Emotions,theSocialBond,andHumanReality:Part/WholeAnalysis ThomasJ.Scheff IntersubjectiveCommunicationandEmotioninEarlyOntogeny SteinBra˚ten TheSocialContextofNonverbalBehavior EditedbyPierrePhilippot,RobertS.Feldman,andErikJ.Coats CommunicatingEmotion SallyPlanalp FeelingandThinking EditedbyJosephP.Forgas ForalistoftitlesintheFirstSeriesofStudiesinEmotionandSocialInterac- tion,seethepagefollowingtheindex. Metaphor and Emotion Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling Zolta´n Ko¨vecses Eo¨tvo¨sLora´ndUniversity &EditionsdelaMaisondesSciencesdel’Homme Paris The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2000 ISBN 0-511-03637-X eBook(Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-64163-2 hardback ISBN 0-521-54146-8 paperback For the boys and Zsuzsi
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