Buch, Englisch, Band VII:8, 147 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 250 g
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Buch, Englisch, Band VII:8, 147 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 250 g
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
ISBN: 978-90-272-2558-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center. This goes against an influential view of the structure of concepts in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, according to which the structure of a concept can be represented by a small number of sense components.