In:Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Veronika Szelid
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 18] 2025
► pp. 167–229
Chapter 5Love as an emotion and a relationship
Published online: 2 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.18.c05
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.18.c05
Article outline
- 5.1Love as an emotion
- 5.1.1The role of internal organs in the conceptualization of emotions
- 5.1.2Emotions as events
- 5.1.2.1States (emotions) are locations
- 5.1.2.2Change is motion: Becoming emotional is a(n unexpected) movement
- 5.1.2.3Causing the change of emotions is handing over an object
- 5.1.2.4Emotion is a force
- 5.1.2.4.1Metaphors focusing on the cause of emotion
- Emotion is a magnetic force
- Emotion is a gravitational force
- 5.1.2.4.2Metaphors focusing on both parts of the emotion schema
- Emotion is hunger
- Emotion is thirst
- 5.1.2.4.3Metaphors focusing on the emotion-response
- 5.1.2.4.1Metaphors focusing on the cause of emotion
- 5.2Love as a relationship
- 5.2.1Love relationship is a journey, love/marriage is closeness
- 5.2.2Love relationship/marriage is a unity
- 5.2.2.1The two lovers/spouses are two complementary parts of a unity
- 5.2.2.2The two lovers/spouses are two entities that become one entity
- 5.2.2.3The love relationship/marriage is a symbiosis/cooperation for a common goal
- 5.2.2.4Consequences of the unity metaphor
- 1.Without their unity, the two parts are unable to function
- 2.There is only one true love for everyone
- 3.True love lasts forever
- 5.2.3Love relationship/marriage is possession
- 5.2.4Love affair is business
- 5.3Conclusion
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