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Folk Conceptualizations Across Languages

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This chapter gives an overview on the nature of folk conceptualizations and the related literature, with the aim of showing how the present research connects to the studies on similar issues across languages and to underline its significance in complementing the already existing results. The research reflects on the approaches to emotion concepts and metaphors of emotions. It argues that while a range of studies explore how the body is used across various cultures as the locus of conceptualizing feelings, there is less attention paid to how nature and landscape are utilized in the conceptualization of emotions. Nature metaphors across cultures represent a cultural group’s attitude, beliefs and ideas towards its natural environment. As discussed in the final section of the chapter, the research of the book primarily relates to the most recent studies on folk literature of languages (in terms of riddles, idioms, folk stories, etc.,) outside the Europe-centered and Anglo-centered families, which are based on oral tradition and require a different methodology from that in written literature.

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Notes

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    Tomori alludes primarily the social and physical environment here.

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    Csango folksongs are also included in the basic corpus (Ortutay and Katona 1975) of the present research.

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Baranyiné Kóczy, J. (2018). Folk Conceptualizations Across Languages. In: Nature, Metaphor, Culture. Cultural Linguistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5753-3_2

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