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

Zoltán Kövecses

This book challenges the simplistic 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. Kovecses illustrates through detailed cross-linguistic analyses how many emotion concepts reflect wide-spread metaphorical patterns of thought.