Open AccessMediaeval and Modern Metaphorical Concepts of Emotions
Author(s) -
Lidija Štrmelj
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.11.2.37-47
Subject(s) - metaphor , george (robot) , selection (genetic algorithm) , cognition , order (exchange) , literature , psychology , art , linguistics , cognitive science , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , art history , neuroscience , finance , economics
This article aims to study emotion metaphors found in a selection of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and compare them with conventional modern metaphors from current dictionaries and other sources, in order to find out whether mediaeval emotional metaphorical concepts have survived to the present day and, if so, what changes can be perceived in them. The study is based on the cognitive theory of metaphor, as developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) in Metaphors We Live By