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In:Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva
[Figurative Thought and Language 11] 2021
► pp. 387–438

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Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese

 | Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Published online: 19 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.11.13sil
Abstract
This chapter investigates the impact of conceptual metaphor on the cultural variation of emotions in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP). Adopting a usage-based, sociocognitive view of language and applying a corpus-based and profile-based methodology, this study combines a multifactorial usage-feature and metaphorical profile analysis of 1,100 examples of anger and pride with their subsequent multivariate statistics modeling. BP seems more connected with complaining anger and the metaphorically unrestrained and perceptible manifestation of anger. Also, BP is closer to self-centered pride and the metaphorically visible manifestation of pride. In contrast, EP seems more akin to violent and interpersonal anger and the metaphorically profiled somatization of anger. Also, EP is more associated with other-directed pride and the personification of pride as an honored person. These statistically significant associations are consistent with the more individualistic, indulgent, and emotionally expressive culture of Brazil and the more collectivistic and restrained culture of Portugal.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cultural variability of anger and pride and cultural differences between Portugal and Brazil
  • 3.Corpus data and methodology
    • 3.1Data
    • 3.2Multifactorial usage-feature and profile analysis
    • 3.3Conceptual metaphors and the profile-based approach
    • 3.4Multivariate quantitative methods
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Multiple correspondence analysis: Feature clusters of anger and pride
      • 4.1.1Three clusters of anger
      • 4.1.2Two clusters of pride
    • 4.2Logistic regression analysis: anger and pride features predicting EP and BP varieties
    • 4.3Multiple correspondence analysis: Profiles of anger and pride metaphors
      • 4.3.1Profiles of anger conceptual metaphors
      • 4.3.2Profiles of pride conceptual metaphors
    • 4.4Logistic regression analysis: anger and pride metaphors predicting EP and BP varieties
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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