Flowers of Love - Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Moldavian Southern Csángó Folksongs
Flowers of Love - Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Moldavian Southern Csángó Folksongs

Summary/Abstract: This is a research into the ways in which the speakers of one of the most ancient Hungarian dialects living on the eastern slopes of the Carpathian mountains conceptualized ‘love’ when their folksongs were born, by studying conceptual mechanisms through the texts of the songs. In spite of the fact that in the language of most of the researched modern societies ‘love’ is taken to be a romantic emotion and as such, conceptualized by the metaphor EMOTIONS ARE FORCES (Kövecses 2000), Csángó authors of the folksongs seem to think about it in an utterly different way. The concept of ‘love’ is based on morality metaphors, more specifically, those of the STRICT FATHER morality (Lakoff 1996). It can be ascertained that beyond the rich erotic meaning emphasized by folklorists, the metaphors of folksongs reveal a complex love model based on moral aspects.

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