In:Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Veronika Szelid
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 18] 2025
► pp. vii–x
Published online: 2 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.18.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.18.toc
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
xi
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
Chapter 2.Folk songs, Csángós, and religious
conceptualization
10
2.1What are Hungarian folk songs?
10
2.2Who are the Moldavian Csángós?
14
2.2.1Language and identity
15
2.2.2Ancient features of dialect and folk music
17
2.3Conceptualization and religion
20
Chapter 3.“My angel, my shining star”: The lovers in folk songs
24
3.1Some general remarks on mating
25
3.1.1Love “at first sniff?” — The choice of partner in the world of animals and humans
25
3.1.2Culturally different ideals
27
3.2Choosing the right partner in Moldavian
Csángó folk songs
28
3.2.1Why red and brown, rather than blond and blue? — The metonymic meaning of color terms and other attributes
28
3.2.2Metaphors of the lovers
33
3.3Conclusion
50
Chapter 4.Sex: The creative power of love
53
4.1The agriculture metaphor
55
4.1.1The land
57
4.1.2Plowing, sowing, and planting
61
4.1.3Milling
66
4.1.4Plants
69
4.1.5Reaping, harvesting
71
4.1.6Threshing, woodcutting
74
4.2Eating
78
4.3Baking
90
4.4Fire
93
4.5Drinking
102
4.6Crossing water, walking for water
110
4.7Water coming out of its container (flood, discharge, scooping of water)
120
4.8Dewfall
124
4.9Entering the house
128
4.10Sport, intense physical activities
137
4.10.1Running, chasing something
137
4.10.2Horseback riding
140
4.10.3Chariot driving
143
4.10.4Dancing
145
4.11Arts and crafts, housework
152
4.11.1Weaving
152
4.11.2Spinning
154
4.11.3Sewing
157
4.11.4Sweeping
160
4.11.5Hammering, horseshoeing, shoe soling, hitting, repeated sounds
161
4.12Conclusion
165
Chapter 5.Love as an emotion and a relationship
167
5.1Love as an emotion
168
5.1.1The role of internal organs in the conceptualization of emotions
168
5.1.2Emotions as events
178
5.2Love as a relationship
197
5.2.1Love relationship is a journey, love/marriage is closeness
199
5.2.2Love relationship/marriage is a unity
203
5.2.3Love relationship/marriage is possession
218
5.2.4Love affair is business
223
5.3Conclusion
226
Chapter 6.Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A synthesis
230
6.1The lovers
230
6.2The physical layer of love: Sex
231
6.3The emotional layer of love
232
6.4The social layer of love: A love relationship/marriage
233
6.5The foundations of love
235
References
241
Appendices
251
Appendix 1. Abbreviations
252
Appendix 2. Sources of the analyzed Hungarian folk songs
254
Metaphors index
Metonymies index
