Turkish Metaphors of Anger
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 57, Issue 1
Abstract
Studies in Cognitive Linguistics have established that metaphors have an important role in the conceptualization of feelings, and that these conceptualizations present clues about the properties unique to the nature of languages. (Lakoff, 405; Kövecses, Metaphor and Emotion 15; Kövecses, Metaphor in Culture 34). The concept of anger, which is one of the most frequently studied feeling concepts examined with a cognitive view, has a significantly important role in determining the cultural differences of the languages (Lakoff and Kövecses 200; Yu 60; Soriano 110; Kövecses, Handbook of Anger 164; Kövecses et al. 350). There have been prominent studies in Turkish as well which aim to put forward the general and culture specific conceptualizations of anger metaphors (Aksan, Metaphors of Anger 31; Aksan, The Container Metaphor 103). The aim of this study is to analyze Turkish anger metaphors and to describe their culture specific views. To reach this aim, the distribution and metaphorical mappings of anger metaphors in a database, which has been built from news articles and newspaper columns, have been determined. The findings of the study show that the metaphors of container, natural force and opponent have significant role in the cognitive model specific to Turkish; and that the Turkish specific model displays common properties with the model developed by Lakoff and Kövecses (200) for American English, aside from having some culture specific differences.
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Elif ARICA AKKÖK
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