Metaphor of Emotions in English: Its Cognitive Structure and Semantic Complexity

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520582
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: OMORI Ayako 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70213866)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WATANABE Hideki 大阪大学, 大学院言語文化研究科, 教授 (30191787)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: メタファー / 感情 / コーパス / 英詩 / 認知言語学 / 認知詩学 / 翻訳

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This collaborated research is an investigation of the structure of conceptual metaphors for the emotions, supported by the theoretical framework of the cognitive linguistic researches on metaphor and cognitive poetics.
Both ordinary and literary language data retrieved from such large electronic corpora as British National Corpus and smaller corpora including literary works, mainly English poetry, and dictionaries, collected and classified with philological considerations, demonstrate the systematic correspondences between the “source” conceptual domains of NATURAL PHENOMENA and ANIMALS and the “target” conceptual domain of EMOTIONS.
During the research period the representative researcher obtained a doctoral degree from Osaka University. The joint researcher was appointed as a member of the International Association of University Professors of English, and is going to read two papers in the Triennial Conference of IAUPE 2016 held at London University.

Free Research Field

認知言語学