The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

This article presents a comparative study of metaphorical expressions of anger and
happiness in English and Chinese. It demonstrates that English and Chinese share the …

The work of Lakoff (1987), Lakoff and Kovecses (1987), and Kovecses (1990, 2000a, 2002)
on anger situates it within the bounds of" PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF AN EMOTION …

Human beings are creatures of the flesh. What we can experience and how we make sense
of what we experience depend on the kinds of bodies we have and on the ways we interact …

This is the revised version of my doctoral dissertation. Several people deserve my special
gratitude and thanks for helping and advising me during the writing of this dissertation and …

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not
even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from …

This paper investigates the embodied conceptualization of emotions from a cognitive
linguistic perspective, focusing on the metaphorical construal of the body and its parts as …

This paper explores cultural conceptualizations of'fear'in Old English texts. My research is
divided into the following steps:(i) definition and onomasiological arrangement of fear terms …

The presence of iconicity in sign languages—that is, conceptual mappings between form
(phonology, syntax, etc.) and meaning (semantics)—constitutes a strong argument for …

In pursuit of the perils of history we have found ourselves most acutely exposed to them; we
ourselves bear visibly the traces of those sufferings which afflict contemporary mankind as a …