Nature, Metaphor, Culture
Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs
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Beschreibung
This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography.
The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation.
The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural sche
mas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English.Presents a novel approach to folklore discourses, a neglected field for functional linguistics
Offers an in-depth analysis of nearly 250 texts, provided in Hungarian and English
Includes numerous illustrations and tables for easy comprehension
Provides an overview of the literature, including Hungarian, most of which has been unavailable in English
Presents a novel approach to folklore discourses, a neglected field for functional linguistics Offers an in-depth analysis of nearly 250 texts, provided in Hungarian and English Includes numerous illustrations and tables for easy comprehension Provides an overview of the literature, including Hungarian, most of which has been unavailable in English Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
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Hungarian folklore Hungarian folksong Cultural Linguistics cultural conceptualisations cultural cognition cultural metaphor cultural schema perspectivisation reference point construction, force-dynamic interaction meaning construction spatial semantics orientational metaphor subjective motion literary diction