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Article published In: Emotions across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen
[International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1] 2017
► pp. 6–23

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Pride

Metaphors and metonymies for the expression of a “deadly sin”

 | School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Published online: 17 October 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.4.1.02ath
Abstract
The aim of the paper
is to discuss the linguistic and conceptual devices employed for the expression of the emotion of pride in English and Greek culture. The focus will be (a) on the way the emotion of pride is conceptualized in the two cultures, (b) on the way it is expressed, not only in terms of lexical entities but also in terms of expressions in which the two cognitive processes, metaphor and metonymy, feature, and moreover, how the interplay between them is realized, and (c) on the role of the emotion of pride in the English and Greek cultural framework.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Scenario of pride
  • 3.The emotion of pride
  • 4.Proper pride
  • 5.Excessive pride: Stages
    • 5.1Hubris
    • 5.2Hatei
    • 5.3Nemesis and tisis
  • 6.Figuration and the emotion of pride
  • Notes
  • References
  • Corpora
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