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This chapter surveys the cultural conceptualizations of river in the context of love. It is proposed that the conceptualizations of river in the folksongs can be traced back to the underlying cultural metaphor emotion as river water, which develops in several related metaphors based on the source domains flood, troubled river water, frozen river water and flowing river water. The metaphorical representations of river utilize the communities’ perceptions about rivers and the way they map them onto abstract, often moral ideas, which implies that they can be insufficiently explained by generic emotional metaphors. It is suggested that many of these conceptualizations can be linked by the image schema watering one’s horse in the river water. Another metaphor of river that can be distinguished is the decision about the relationship as river, which grounds the crossing the river image schema. The cultural metaphors and image schemas instantiate the cultural schema reservedness, as it is proved by in-depth analyses on the texts.
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Note that in Hungarian possessive suffixes can also indicate multiple possession.
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Baranyiné Kóczy, J. (2018). Cultural Metaphors Related to River . In: Nature, Metaphor, Culture. Cultural Linguistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5753-3_5
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