Selected constructions with nouns denoting emotions and metaphors of emotions in Czech
Selected constructions with nouns denoting emotions and metaphors of emotions in Czech

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the relationship between constructions that include emotion nouns and the metaphorical conceptualization of emotions in Czech. It focuses on selected nouns that denote negative emotions (anger: vztek, zlost, hněv, amok; fear: strach, úzkost, panika; dislike: nelibost, nechuť), verbs that take these nouns as subjects or objects (and to some extent on other types of verbal complementation). Similarities and differences were found in the preferred types of construction for the given emotions, in the repertoire of verbs in these constructions, and in associated metaphors. However, the results can only partially be explained by metaphorical processes and by semantic factors such as the intensity or “activity” of the emotion. The research uses valency theory and a cognitive approach to language and is based on data from the synchronic corpus of written Czech SYN2015.

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