Metaphors in Happy and Unhappy Life Stories of Russian Adults

Bochaver, A.A.; Fenko, Anna

doi:10.1080/10926488.2010.510928

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“…More than [6] 900,000 Hazara live in Pakistan (Facade,2019). Most of them live in Quetta, the capital of Balochistanin Pakistan.…”

Section: Contextualizing the Hazargi Community In Baluchistan's Socia...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study takes place against the backdrop of burgeoning research on critical metaphor and its application in different contexts [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [1], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [17]. Researchers have also applied and investigated conceptual metaphors focusing on different cultural settings [18], [19], [20].…”

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Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan

Hussain

Ali²,

David³

2022

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Conceptual metaphor theory explains conceptual systems through cross-domain mappings. The mapping occurs on a conceptual level in a way that one conceptual domain is understood in terms of another conceptual domain. It also shows how target domain is perceived or understood through numerous source domains. Daily life experiences of people create patterns of understanding and conceptual metaphors are used to utilise these patterns in our utterances about issues in the world. In this research paper, Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) conceptual metaphor theory and Grice’s (1975) implicature theory are used as theoretical frameworks to identify, study and interpret conceptual metaphors for marriage in the Hazaragi community in Balochistan, Pakistan. This study focusses on the institution of marriage as this institution carries rich conceptual domains and has many conceptual mappings. Data collected from the book on Hazaragi idioms and two Hazaragi dramas were used to identify and analyse five general categories which include marriage as a food, marriage as an expensive commodity, marriage as a friendship, marriage as a slavery, and marriage as a journey or time. The paper also explores implied conceptual metaphors for marriage which do not indicate the concept of marriage directly. In short, this study discusses how conceptual metaphors in the institution of marriage depict Hazaragi culture and tradition.

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“…More than [6] 900,000 Hazara live in Pakistan (Facade,2019). Most of them live in Quetta, the capital of Balochistanin Pakistan.…”

Section: Contextualizing the Hazargi Community In Baluchistan's Socia...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan

Hussain

Ali²,

David³

2022

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“…Shinebourne and Smith (2010) concurred with Ritchie in their examination of stories from persons living with addiction, and reported the use of metaphors as a frequent and powerful means of making sense of shared experiences. Bochaver and Fenko (2010) also studied metaphor use in life stories of adults and found "specific metaphors play an important part in defining subjective happiness or unhappiness" (p. 243) with happy life stories richer in the amount and variety of metaphors. In addition to literature on communication, metaphors have been explored within the healthcare arena.…”

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Metaphorically Speaking . . .

Condon

2012

Nurs Sci Q

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“…He regarded it as the primary root metaphor of talented youth in the United States today, mainly caused by technological change, cultural influence, and psychological development. Bochaver and Fenko (2010) compared the metaphors of 20 Russian celebrities interviewed for their achievements in popular magazines with the metaphor of 20 non-celebrity Russians seeking psychological help. Those psychological help-seekers indicated LIFE IS DEATH in their narrative, while the celebrities tended to describe life as a purposeful journey.…”

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A CCL and COCA-Based Contrastive Study of LIFE Metaphor in Chinese and English

Zhou¹,

Xiang-yong²

2020

ELLS

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This paper analyzes universalities and variations of LIFE metaphor via qualitative and quantitative analysis of data retrieved from two authoritative, general, and monolingual corpora—Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) in Chinese and English. The study aims to explore the universalities and variations of LIFE metaphor in Chinese and English on the one hand, further the hidden reasons for the universalities and variations on the other. Results reveal that source domains like JOURNEY/VOYAGE, FOOD, WAR, DREAM, BOOK are employed to conceptualize LIFE both in Chinese and English justifying the universality of conceptual metaphor, which can be ascribed to Chinese and American people’s common bodily experience, common knowledge and experience about the world, common social and cultural experience. However, the frequency of conceptualizing FOOD, WAR, DREAM, BOOK is different, and the potential universal metaphors like FOOD show differences in their specific details. Besides, unique source domains are used for a particular culture (OPERA in Chinese). Different socio-cultural contexts, differential memory, Chinese and Americans’ different outlooks on life may account for LIFE metaphor’s cross-cultural variation.

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Metaphors in Happy and Unhappy Life Stories of Russian Adults

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan

Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan

Metaphorically Speaking . . .

A CCL and COCA-Based Contrastive Study of LIFE Metaphor in Chinese and English

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