love and beloved metaphors in Jordanian Arabic and English songs

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI:10.1075/msw.21027.zib

Aseel Zibin, A. R. Altakhaineh, Hady J. Hamdan

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Abstract

This study examines love and beloved metaphors from the cross-cultural perspective of Jordanian Arabic (JA) and English. The conceptual models suggested by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999) and Kövecses (2014) and force dynamics proposed by Talmy (1988) are adopted as the theoretical frameworks for this study. The data was collected from contemporary songs by Jordanian and English-speaking artists. Unlike previous comparative studies on love and beloved metaphors, this study demonstrates that source domains found in JA songs such as pain/suffering, sadness, weakness, wound, stupid endeavour, cruelty and deadly force also exist in English songs to conceptualise love. It is argued that while the use of these source domains in JA is expected as they form part of the prototypical cognitive model of love or the love matrix in JA, they could be viewed as nonprototypical in English. The analysis also revealed certain JA culture-specific source domains used to conceptualise the object of love [beloved], i.e. arabian oryx and basil. We argued that despite the existence of similar conceptual metaphors in the two languages, geographical, historical and ideological factors may have an effect on the prevailing conceptual frames in a certain speech community creating some differences in the metaphorical conceptualisations of love and beloved.

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约旦阿拉伯语和英语歌曲中的爱和爱的隐喻

本研究从约旦阿拉伯语和英语的跨文化视角考察了爱和被爱的隐喻。本研究采用Lakoff和Johnson(1980,1999)和Kövecses(2014)提出的概念模型以及Talmy(1988)提出的力动力学作为理论框架。这些数据是从约旦和说英语的艺术家的当代歌曲中收集的。与以往关于爱与被爱隐喻的比较研究不同，本研究表明，在JA歌曲中发现的疼痛/痛苦、悲伤、软弱、伤口、愚蠢的努力、残忍和致命的力量等源域也存在于英语歌曲中，以概念化爱。本文认为，虽然这些源域在JA中的使用是预期的，因为它们构成了JA中爱的原型认知模型或爱矩阵的一部分，但它们在英语中可能被视为非原型。分析还揭示了某些JA文化特定的来源域，用于概念化爱的对象，即阿拉伯大羚羊和罗勒。我们认为，尽管两种语言中存在相似的概念隐喻，但地理、历史和意识形态因素可能会影响特定语言群体中流行的概念框架，从而导致爱和被爱的隐喻概念化存在一些差异。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.