Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space : the Interplay of Embodiment and Cultural Models / James J. Mischler, III, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Published
Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013
Part I. Theoretical foundations -- part II. A macro-study of human emotion in cultural context, A.D. 1500-1990 -- part III. Micro-studies of emotion : the 19th century -- part IV. Conclusions and implications
Summary
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical "mixed methods" design, employing both quantitative and qualitative analysis measures; the study design was informed by usage-based theory. The goal was to investigate the interaction over time between conceptualization and cultural models in historical English-speaking society. The main study of two linguistic metaphors of anger spa
