Happiness and metaphors: a perspective from Hindi phraseology

IF 0.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Yearbook of Phraseology Pub Date : 2017-10-26 DOI:10.1515/PHRAS-2017-0009

S. Sharma

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract Following the tradition of embodiment hypothesis suggested by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), the current research article aims to explore metaphorical concepts of happiness in Hindi phraseological expressions. The embodiment hypothesis postulates that phraseological expressions, especially idioms, are not the frozen building blocks of a language, but motivated linguistic bundles, which encode and reflect the physical and socio-cultural experience of a given linguistic community (see Gibbs 1993). In this regard, this article not only proposes the metaphorical instances of motivated Hindi phraseological expressions but also highlights the underlying socio-cultural particularities. This article is expected to contribute to international phraseological research given that Hindi language, particularly Hindi phraseology, has hardly been taken into consideration to validate or refute the postulates of embodiment hypothesis in connection with the conceptualization of emotional concepts.

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幸福与隐喻：从印地语短语学的角度

摘要本研究遵循Lakoff和Johnson(1980)的体现假设，旨在探索印地语短语表达中幸福的隐喻概念。具体化假说认为，短语表达，尤其是习语，并不是语言的固定构件，而是有动机的语言包，它们编码并反映了特定语言群体的身体和社会文化经验(见Gibbs 1993)。在这方面，本文不仅提出了动机的印地语短语的隐喻实例，而且强调了潜在的社会文化特殊性。鉴于印地语，特别是印地语短语，几乎没有考虑到与情感概念概念化有关的具体化假设的假设，因此本文有望对国际短语学研究做出贡献。

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Yearbook of Phraseology LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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0.80

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： The Yearbook of Phraseology is a fully international, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to research in phraseology, a linguistic subfield concerned with the study of word combinations of varying extent and type, and different degrees of fixedness. Word combinations are ubiquitous in language and constitute a significant resource for communication. Their study is of interest to many other subdisciplines of linguistics and even to other disciplines, throwing light on the make-up of constructions, their processing and learning, the make-up and modes of creation of complex building blocks of language, the methodology and use of corpora and statistical methods, as well as on the way in which language functions.