Anger is a potent Ally: The Interplay of Metaphor, Metonymy and Image Schema
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Dabrowska, Anna [1]
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[1] Marie Curie Sklodowka University, Lublin
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- Localización: Concepts, Discourses, and Translations / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed. lit.), Marcin Trojszczak (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 9783030960988, págs. 3-20
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Anger as a universal emotion is commonly associated with annoyance, frustration or outrage. Experiencing anger, human beings tend to become either anger stuffers or anger eruptors. This fact has given rise to the well-known conceptual metaphor ANGER IS THE HEAT OF A FLUID IN A CONTAINER (Kövecses, 1986). Instead, taking recent advances in the field of neuroscience concerning anger management and “mindful approach” (cf. Siegel, 2009, 2016), Cognitive Linguistics may take advantage of this psychological constructive perspective to elaborate on the concept of anger from a new angle, still through the prism of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kövecses, 1986, 2008, 2015; Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Lakoff and Kövecses, 1987). In this light, the aim of this paper is to discuss the novel conceptual metaphor ANGER IS A POTENT ALLY, triggered from Siegel’s mindful technique. The study accounts for this original metaphor, dealing with numerous metaphorical entailments and linguistic expressions that yield from it, for instance, start to inhabit one’s body, take a stand for one’s needs and desires, anger heals trauma and anger inspires action. In addition, the paper refers to the interplay between metaphorical, metonymic, metaphtonimic and image schematic structures within the conceptual model of anger (Barcelona, 2002; Goossens, 1990; and Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal, 2007). As believed, the number of original conventionalised linguistic expressions that code the novel metaphor under scrutiny may help us view anger as our real ally and help us channel this vigorous energy towards improving our lives (cf. Mustad, 2019).
