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Nature, Metaphor, Culture

Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs

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Overview

  • Presents a novel approach to folklore discourses, a neglected field for functional linguistics
  • Offers an in-depth analysis of nearly 250 texts, provided in Hungarian and English
  • Includes numerous illustrations and tables for easy comprehension
  • Provides an overview of the literature, including Hungarian, most of which has been unavailable in English
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Cultural Linguistics (CL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Introduction to the Study of Hungarian Folksongs

  2. Cultural Metaphors in Folksongs

  3. Cultural Schemas of Construal

  4. Conclusion

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About this book

This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography.

The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation. 

The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural

schemas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Studies and Communication, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary

    Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

About the author

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy studied English language and literature and Hungarian language and literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba. She was a PhD student from 2008 to 2011 at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, where she joined the Doctoral School of Linguistics and specialised in cognitive linguistics. She obtained her summa cum laude PhD degree in 2014 completing her thesis on A Spatial Semantic Approach to Hungarian Folksongs. At present her main interests of research involve language and culture, cultural conceptualisations, metaphors in culture, spatial semantics, and folklore discourse types, where she applies theoretical issues to empirical, corpus-based study. At present she is a senior lecturer at the Széchenyi István University, Győr.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nature, Metaphor, Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs

  • Authors: Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

  • Series Title: Cultural Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5753-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5752-6Published: 23 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5481-6Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5753-3Published: 03 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2520-145X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2520-1468

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language and Literature, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology

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