Perception, Culture and Language
Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar-Szabó
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is involved.
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2024 Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 298–327 | Chapter
This chapter offers a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisations of beard and moustache in Hungarian proverbs. While facial hair is an underexploited field in paremiology, the chapter argues that it is an appropriate concept for capturing the cultural aspects of the figurative… read more
2024 Categorization of body parts in Dholuo: From culture to taxonomy Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1, pp. 265–285 | Article
The embodiment hypothesis holds that human cognition and mental representations are influenced by the body and its physical interaction with the world. Research on the representation of the human body in language and how it is divided/categorized into parts and subsections is thus vital in… read more
2023 Cultural conceptualizations of sight and cultural values : A contrastive analysis of Hungarian vision verbs Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 313–341 | Article
The relationship between visual experience and cognition manifested in the thinking/knowing/understanding is seeing metaphor, is claimed to be the primary vision metaphor in various languages. However, only a few studies considered its extension to less central domains such as cultural values.… read more
2023 Introduction: Perception, culture and language Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 259–269 | Introduction
2021 Correspondences between Hungarian women’s marital names and the traditional family schema Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel (eds.), pp. 151–184 | Chapter
A marital name makes a statement about women’s cultural values with respect to their family schemas. In Hungary, adopting the husband’s full name by marriage is no longer required, thus women have the opportunity to choose from seven different name structures. The paper aims to uncover the… read more
2020 Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ in Hungarian Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage, Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed.), pp. 215–245 | Chapter
The notion of embodiment refers to the bodily basis of human perceptions about the environment, and also structures our conceptual system (Gibbs 2005; Johnson 1987). This is most evidently manifested in the conceptualizations of body parts and organs and their metaphorical extension to various… read more
2016 Reference point constructions in the meaning construal of Hungarian folksongs Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1, pp. 113–133 | Article
The present paper aims at showing that ‘cognitive reference points’ (CRPs, see Rosch [1975] and Langacker [1999]) have a crucial role in construing the meaning of a significant group of Hungarian folksongs. In line with the dynamic view on construal, according to which conceptualization unfolds… read more