Variation within Universals

Ogarkova, Anna; Salinas, Cristina Soriano

doi:10.5040/9781472593610.ch-005

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“…This is followed by a Spanish-English contrastive analysis within the same theoretical framework (Soriano-Salinas, 2003). More recently, Soriano and her colleagues have contributed most of the scholarship on the Spanish concept of ANGER, adopting an interdisciplinary and interlinguistic perspective (Soriano, 2013;Soriano et al, 2013;Soriano, 2014a and2014b). These studies combine different methods (corpus analysis, reference-based elicitation of emotion terms) and disciplinary paradigms (CMT and linguistic anthropology).…”

Section: The Linguistic Expression Of Anger In German and Spanishmentioning

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“…Applying Ogarkova and Soriano's (2014a) semantic foci, Oster (2019a) characterizes German and Spanish anger words according to two dimensions: regulation (control vs lack of control) and expression (visibility vs internalization). The co-occurrence analysis of anger words reveals that expressions highlighting lack of control are more prominent in German than in Spanish, whereas those emphasizing control are less prominent.…”

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Translating emotions

Oster

2023

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This paper is a corpus-based study of how translation affects the portrayal of emotion concepts. It aims to establish whether there are differences between translated texts and original texts in a given language as to how emotions are expressed and whether emotion conceptualization in the translated texts is closer to that of the source or the target language. To do so, the study focuses on one emotion in a specific language combination: the conceptual domain of anger in German and Spanish. In a first step, analysis of two large reference corpora provides a contrastive description of the concept anger as represented by prototypical emotion lexemes in both languages (Wut, Zorn and Ärger in German and ira, rabia, enojo in Spanish). Then, the parallel corpus COVALT is used to study three aspects of the expression of anger in Spanish translated texts: conceptual metaphor, physical effects and consequences of the emotion. Analysis of the use of conceptual metaphor shows that both source and target language preferences are present in the target texts. A more marked deviation from target language conventions can be observed in the translation of expressions referring to the physical effects or consequences of anger.

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Section: The Linguistic Expression Of Anger In German and Spanishmentioning

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Translating emotions

Oster

2023

LiC

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“…That is the case for many metaphors grounded on image-schematic structures (path, container, up-down, and others). Nevertheless, it has been shown that each culture also influences conceptual models by sieving and partially selecting elements of human embodied experience to which that culture attaches greater significance (Gibbs 1999;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2013;Ogarkova and Soriano 2014;Yu 2012). Hence, the suggestion that the cultural context largely contributes to the variation of metaphorical conceptualisation deserves some consideration and is worth exploring.…”

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Thematic role mappings in metaphor variation: contrasting Englishbakeand Spanishhornear

Esbrí-Blasco

Ferrando

2023

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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The present study investigates the scope of metaphors evoked by the culinary term bake in American English and its Peninsular Spanish equivalent hornear. The data analysed was extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. The target frames evoked and the frame elements involved in the metaphorical mappings were used to identify and analyse the metaphorical expressions. Furthermore, the type of process and thematic roles performed by the frame elements in the conceptual projections were examined to make divergences explicit. Our results suggest that metaphor diversity is broader in American English, as the source frame evoked by bake expresses metaphorically a larger number of target frames than hornear in Peninsular Spanish. Consequently, these lexical items are not exact equivalents. Each language seems to place the experiential focus on different frame elements and thematic roles to create their metaphorical mappings, which points to differential cognitive preferences between both cultures.

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“…This approach has been successfully utilized to explore the metaphorical structures of many emotions across cultures or languages (e.g. Glynn & Biryukova, 2022;Nordmark & Glynn, 2013;Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). In terms of the research scope, there have been very few cross-cultural studies on the conceptualizations of ENVY, a well-known socially driven emotion, generated mainly by social comparison (Alicke & Zell, 2008;Vrabel et al, 2018).…”

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Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis

Wu,

Liu

2023

Lang. cogn.

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Adopting a multifactorial analysis, this corpus-based comparative study examines the metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in American English and Chinese. All the metaphorical occurrences of ENVY in the two languages were collected from the corpora and then submitted to a detailed semantic and usage analysis. The qualitative and quantitative analyses show both striking similarities and differences in the metaphorical structuring of ENVY across the two languages. Both languages resort to largely the same common conceptual metaphors but use divergent elements from these metaphors’ source domains in their conceptualizations of ENVY. Moreover, a correspondence analysis of the most frequently used envy metaphors in relation to four important factors reveals some noticeable cross-language differences in their behavioural profiles. Based on the corpus findings, this study also explores the motivations underlying the similarities and differences in the metaphorical structuring of ENVY. The results indicate that the similarities are grounded mainly in common bodily experiences, whereas the differences are motivated by either differential cultural experiences or differential cognitive preferences.

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Variation within Universals

Cited by 12 publications

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Translating emotions

Translating emotions

Thematic role mappings in metaphor variation: contrasting Englishbakeand Spanishhornear

Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis

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