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

By Zoltán Kövecses

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
051103637X, 9780511036378, 0521641632, 9780521641630, 0521541468, 9780521541466
LCC
BF582 .K68 2000
Open Library ID
OL24304475M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
782 kB (800579 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
242\242
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Zoltan Kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by stressing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-64163-2

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